Can the SIU shorten its probe turnaround time from four years?
Only 29 final reports have been submitted to the Presidency for proclamations published since April 2009
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU)‚ which has just started a wide-ranging probe into maladministration at the SABC‚ takes an average of three to four years to complete an investigation‚ Parliament has heard. Head of the unit Andy Mothibi told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday that "we need to improve on our turnaround times. Some investigations are four or five years old." But he said improving turnaround times should not mean that quality suffered. Proclamations were being made narrower and more specific‚ Mothibi said, and in events where investigations took longer than a year‚ interim reports were being issued. Mothibi said the unit would like to become "the state’s preferred and trusted forensic investigation and litigation agency"‚ but that many state departments and entities used private investigative firms to conduct investigations‚ and only approached the SIU with these reports after they were finalised. The SIU has received 81 proclamations si...
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