Top crime intelligence boss loses court bid to overturn suspension over Covid-19 PPE scandal
Jan Gerber Suspended police Crime Intelligence Chief, Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs, has lost a court bid to return to work. Jacobs, and five officers under his command, face misconduct charges which centre on the use of a secret police slush fund to buy Covid-19 PPE. The veteran cop claims he is being pushed out for exposing graft in the uppermost echelons of the police. An urgent court bid by police Crime Intelligence head Peter Jacobs, in which he and five of his subordinates challenged their suspensions over a R1.5 million Covid-19 personal protection equipment (PPE) procurement sca...
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