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IOL News reports that the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) was operating with almost half the personnel provided for in its organogram, divisional commissioner Patrick Mbotho advised on Wednesday.
He made the statement when he appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa). According to Mbotho, the DPCI's staff establishment stood at 2,688, including detectives and support staff. The entity is supposed to have 5,332 personnel. “In this financial year 2025/26, the police management and we agreed that we are going to prioritise 500 posts. The 500 is to be made up of 300 posts to be advertised internally for us to source within police investigators, but the other 200 is reserved for external advertisements for those posts we don’t have capacity internally, such as forensic accountants,” Mbotho reported. He also said they were in the process of capacitating the cybersecurity environment. “We think we can enhance our capacity within cybercrime and forensic accountancy,” he opined. He also said resource issues have significantly impacted them and resulted in a delay in finalising investigations. Mbotho confirmed there was some expertise they did not have. “We have limited forensic accounting. We have to procure that. Our procurement is not the fastest,” he said. Mbotho added that one of the reasons for the long investigations, especially in matters related to the defence force, was the time it took for declassification of information.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mayibongwe Maqhina at IOL News
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