Williams cites unclear mandate for rejecting NPA TRC task team
He says he told the then acting National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Mokotedi Mpshe, that SAPS attendance would be useless until the impasse on the role other departments were to play in deciding on the prosecution of cases was clarified.
Former Acting National Police Commissioner Timothy Williams says he declined an invitation from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to send a South African Police Service (SAPS) representative to an Interdepartmental Task Team (ITT) working on TRC cases because the body’s mandate was unclear.
There was a lack of understanding or common understanding between the NDPP at that time because by then, Bikuli was at the NDPP and the national commissioner about their role as a committee and I was basically bringing to his attention that it serves no purpose for the ITT to meet without guidance of the DGs.
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