Pretoria News reports that the fate of the Tshwane Metro Police Department’s head of crime prevention, Johanna Estresia “Trish” Armstrong, who allegedly lied about her qualifications during the recruitment process, is in the hands of city manager Moeketsi Mosola.  

The damning findings are contained in a forensic report compiled after investigation by the city’s Group Audit and Risk Department in 2014.  MMC for Community Safety Derrick Kissundooth said the report had been sent to Mosola in light of questions asked regarding whether its recommendations had been implemented or not.  It had been recommended that legal action be taken against Armstrong, but insiders at the department said that never happened.  The forensic services found that Armstrong used a fraudulent metro police diploma to register with the Department of Transport as a traffic officer in 2009.  She also claimed she was a metro police chief in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, which was found to be untrue.

• Read this report by Rapula Moatshe in full at Pretoria News
• See too, Samwu calls for tough action as Masola ‘studies’ fraud report, at The New Age

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