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A well-placed source of Major General Vearey, the former head of Western Cape’s Detectives’ has kicked back claiming he was set up to be dismissed, showcasing how a case of misconduct was made against him.
While dedicated SAPS members like Sergeant Catherine Tladi worked hard to ensure serial rapist Sello Mapunya is imprisoned for life, SAPS top leadership is riven with deadly divisions and deep-rooted corruption which threatens the wellbeing of the country.
An outcry has followed the dismissal of the Western Cape’s head of detectives Jeremy Vearey after he was found guilty of misconduct over ’disrespectful’ posts on social media.
One of the country’s top gangbusting police officers, Major-General Jeremy Vearey, will now have to fight to try to keep his job in the police service. Last week it emerged that a disciplinary meeting chaired by Lieutenant-General Liziwe Ntshinga found him guilty of misconduct relating to eight Facebook posts he made between December 2020 and February 2021. She recommended that he be dismissed. Daily Maverick has seen a notice in terms of the police’s discipline regulations, in which Ntshinga says he should be dismissed. Sitole signed the notice on Friday. A typed section of it said: “B...
Western Cape detectives head Major General Jeremy Vearey has been fired after being found guilty of misconduct for "disrespectful" social media posts.