President Cyril Ramaphosa invited the national police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole to make representations on a notice to suspend him, the presidency said on Thursday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa wrote to police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole on September 20 informing him about serious allegations of his failure to assist the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.
“The allegations emerged publicly and became the subject of a finding by judge Dennis Davis in the Pretoria high court,” he said. “The president has, in terms of section 9 of the SA Police Service Act of 1995, read with section 8 of the same act, deemed it appropriate to institute a board of inquiry into the national commissioner’s alleged misconduct and fitness to hold the office of national commissioner of police.”
“The president outlined this context in his letter to Gen Sitole and gave the commissioner 14 days to respond. The commissioner has since submitted representations in this regard.”
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