Khumalo claims some highly trained Gauteng cops "moonlight" for crime syndicate

The police’s head of crime intelligence, Dumisani Khumalo, has alleged that some highly trained combat members of the police in Gauteng are moonlighting for crime syndicates.

Khumalo says following an analysis, they found that almost the whole of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in Gauteng is working for the cartel based in the province.

Khumalo made the startling claims during his evidence before Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating allegations of police corruption on Thursday.

Khumalo told the committee that the Gauteng organised crime investigations were compromised because members of the units were also allegedly working for the very crime syndicates they were investigating.

He also told Members of Parliament (MPs) how one Johannesburg metro police officer was allegedly working part-time for individuals like alleged crime syndicate member Katiso 'KT' Molefe, who undertook “suspicious interventions” on his behalf.

“During the analysis and threat and risk assessment, it had come out that almost the whole of SAPS Gauteng is working for the cartel,” Khumalo said.

Khumalo says they were forced to get people from outside of Gauteng to work on their covert operations in the province.

“What is happening in Gauteng, where the highly trained combat members of SAPS are moonlighting for the cartels, in other words, working outside their working hours?”

He said they managed to gather a lot of information and identified a lot of the members involved.

Khumalo is expected to wrap up his evidence in Parliament on Friday.