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The Johannesburg Labour Court ordered the termination of a disciplinary inquiry into former Crime Intelligence boss Peter Jacobs.
Jacobs and five other high-ranking officers face misconduct charges for their role in the unlawful use of a secret police slush fund to purchase PPE.
Jacobs claims he faces the axe because he uncovered corruption in the uppermost ranks of the police.
Former Crime Intelligence boss Peter Jacobs has been thrown a lifeline by the Johannesburg Labour Court which, on Wednesday, interdicted the police from concluding a fraught disciplinary inquiry that could likely have seen him fired.
Jacobs and five other high-ranking officers in the police spook outfit were suspended in December, while facing a raft of misconduct charges over the unlawful use of a secret slush fund to bankroll Covid-19 PPE – a precursor to an expeditious disciplinary inquiry, which had been set down for hearing in February.