Corruption within EMPD dominates hearing

IN A week where President Cyril Ramaphosa insisted on rooting out corruption within the police through implementing recommendations from the Madlanga Commission, Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) dominated the hearings.

- BONGANI HANS

The EMPD had featured prominently in the allegation of criminal syndicates infiltrating law enforcement, intelligence, and justice systems, which the Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga-led commission is investigating.

The commission heard this week how corrupt some EMPD officers were, as two of them were on Friday accused of illegal impounding of a truck, which they later stripped off some of its parts while goods worth over R1 million disappeared at their hands.

This was the evidence of Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) assistant director Thulani Magagula who told the commission that he was investigating the two officers who impounded the truck and kept it at the EMPD pound without booking it in.

The truck, which belonged to a Malawian man who operated a transport business, was meant to transport the goods from Putfontein to Mpumalanga on February 8, 2023.