'There is actually what we call in Ipid a blue curtain … More often than not even before my appointment to Ipid there's a history of cases where there's been rampant abuse and a sense of impunity...'
Robert McBride at the commission of inquiry into state capture on Thursday April 11 2019. 'Any request for information from crime intelligence ... is generally met with resistance,' he said.
Former head of the Independent Police Investigation Directorate took to the state capture inquiry on April 11 2019 to reveal the forces at play in an attempt to ‘capture the state’. He said Ipid wrote to police minister Bheki Cele on a number of occasions to help with the declassification process. He said Ipid was referred to the inspector general of intelligence .
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