A KwaZulu-Natal police whistleblower, who was suspended without pay because, he said, he exposed fraudulent crime statistics, has had his salary reinstated.
Constable Craig Josiah approached the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg last month to set aside his suspension. He claimed he had been victimised and subjected to trumped-up charges after he exposed "fraudulent" activities in the capturing of crime statistics.
Josiah's affidavit to the court said his problems began when Badul ordered detectives to proceed with investigating only matters "where suspects were immediately available or easily ascertainable".
"We were specifically instructed that in all other matters the docket was to be kept aside in a separate room," Josiah told the court. "It was clear that the purpose of this 'new arrangement' was to ensure that criminal complaints that were unlikely to be successfully investigated and subsequently prosecuted would conveniently be left out of the reporting system, thereby falsely reducing the crime statistics for Mountain Rise Police Station."
He said that the "new arrangement" was "startling" to station members as they were of the view that it "constituted fraud".
Another instruction, Josiah said, was that officers should capture an alternative or lesser charge for crimes that were considered to be on the increase, "thereby reducing the instances of those crimes".
"It obviously also meant that all these complaints that were now set aside were no longer being recorded as part of the crime statistics. It also goes without saying that these crimes were therefore not policed. This carried on from February/March 2007 and as far as I know continues even today," Josiah said.
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