Crime Intelligence boss faces internal investigation over Charl Kinnear murder News24 Wire
Portrait of Charl Kinnear at the funeral service for the slain officer. Picture: Gallo Images/Brenton Geach Kinnear was gunned down on 18 September, two weeks after police received credible information that his phone was being illegally tracked.
Besieged police Crime Intelligence (CI) boss Peter Jacobs is the second high-ranking officer to face an internal investigation centred on the murder of Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) detective Charl Kinnear.
The probe relates to what Jacobs did, or failed to do, when police received warning of a threat on Kinnear’s life.
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Western Cape Anti-Gang Unit commander Andre Lincoln is facing an internal police investigation.
The probe relates to his alleged failure to ensure that AGU detective Charl Kinnear was assigned protection after police discovered a potential plot to have him murdered.
Kinnear was gunned down outside his Bishop Lavis home two weeks after cops were tipped off that his phone was being tracked.
Western Cape Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) head, Major-General Andre Lincoln, is facing an internal investigation for his alleged failure to ensure AGU detective Charl Kinnear had bodyguards after police were tipped off that there may be an attempt on his life.
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In a Cape Town courtroom in January 2018, claims emerged that the head of detectives in the Western Cape, Major-General Jeremy Vearey, was a member of the 27s gang and worked with the gang’s leader to have an attorney murdered.
Fast-forward nearly three years and claims of a similar nature have been made in another Cape Town courtroom. This time the claims focus on the head of the Anti-Gang Unit (AGU), Major-General Andre Lincoln, and are along the lines that he wanted a criminal suspect and the suspect’s partner to help him carry out a hit on someone who had been threatening him and his colleague, AGU member Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear.
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