The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) alleged in Parliament on Tuesday that powerful police officers were using classification to frustrate the watchdog’s investigations into officials, including disgraced former acting commissioner Khomotso Phahlane and convicted criminal intelligence policeman Morris Tshabalala. An Ipid delegation briefed MPs in the standing committee on public accounts on the status of ongoing investigations. Ipid investigations head Matthew Sesoko said that even though the parliamentary committee had agreed in November that questionable contracts worth R919.3m between the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) and service provider Forensic Data Analysts (FDA) should be cancelled, payments continued. "It is our considered view that the investigations against the high-ranking officers have brought to the fore the necessity to amend the Ipid Act, the Intelligence [Services] Oversight Act and the SAPS [South African Police Service] Act to deal ...
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