TimesLIVE reports that in a bid to address a growing workload and to beef up capacity, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) announced on Thursday that it would be redeploying hundreds of investigators across SA.  

Ipid spokesperson Ndileka Cola advised that a recent assessment had been done of the police watchdog’s available personnel capacity against its workload.  She reported:  “The exercise resulted in the directorate taking a strategic decision to realign and regroup the functions for optimal utilisation of the limited resources for better delivery of service to the people.  Among others, a decision was taken to return some of the current investigators, who were temporarily transferred to the national office under the National Specialised Investigation Team (NSIT) to their respective provinces and to decentralise the team to capacitate the provincial offices.”  Cola added that during meetings with NSIT members, it was established that their workload was far less than that of their colleagues based in the provinces, “which is unjustifiable and may result in unfair labour practice”.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Graeme Hosken at TimesLIVE

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