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Hawks have only half the staff they need

Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations needs more investigators

The Hawks are hoping to recruit 315 investigators from within the SA Police Service. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

The country’s organised crime and corruption-busting units presented their latest investigation and conviction tallies to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
MPs were dismayed by the number of cases the National Prosecuting Authority declined to prosecute, and at the length of time it took for investigations to be concluded.
One of the presentations showed the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) was short of about 1,500 investigators.

South Africa’s top policing unit responsible for combating organised crime and corruption is severely short of investigators.
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), known as the Hawks, has 2,515 policing staff vacancies. Of these…

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