Jeremy Veareyâs axing once again emphasises the rot within SAPS
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The dismissal of the Western Capeâs head of detectives, Jeremy Vearey, has once again emphasised the rot that exists within the SAPS.
Vearey, a former uMkhonto weSizwe guerrilla who was imprisoned on Robben Island, became one of Nelson Mandelaâs bodyguards and was integrated into the National Intelligence Agency, the predecessor to the State Security Agency, in 1994.
In 1996 he joined the SAPS where he was forced to work alongside some of the police officers who had hounded him in the 1980s. His axing last week was allegedly over his Facebook posts, which the policeâs senior management deemed to have been targeted at under-fire National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole.
While dedicated SAPS members like Sergeant Catherine Tladi worked hard to ensure serial rapist Sello Mapunya is imprisoned for life, SAPS top leadership is riven with deadly divisions and deep-rooted corruption which threatens the wellbeing of the country.
An outcry has followed the dismissal of the Western Cape’s head of detectives Jeremy Vearey after he was found guilty of misconduct over ’disrespectful’ posts on social media.
One of the country’s top gangbusting police officers, Major-General Jeremy Vearey, will now have to fight to try to keep his job in the police service.
Last week it emerged that a disciplinary meeting chaired by Lieutenant-General Liziwe Ntshinga found him guilty of misconduct relating to eight Facebook posts he made between December 2020 and February 2021.
She recommended that he be dismissed.
Daily Maverick has seen a notice in terms of the police’s discipline regulations, in which Ntshinga says he should be dismissed.
Sitole signed the notice on Friday.
A typed section of it said: “By the virtue of the power vested in me, in terms of… the South African Police Service Discipline Regulations, 2016, I General Khehla John Sitole hereby confirm the following.”
Widow of Charl Kinnear: I refuse to watch another police family go through this
31 May 2021 3:28 PM
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The widow of murdered Cape Town detective Charl Kinnear says she s fighting for police officers and their families to get proper protection in the line of duty.
The widow of slain Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) detective Charl Kinnear says her family wants to use her husband s tragic death to bring attention to the need for better police resources.
Nicolette Kinnear says police officers can not do their work safely and effectively if they are not given the proper tools to succeed.
Her husband was gunned down outside his Bishop Lavis home in September 2020.