# South African Police Service legislative expert Marga van Rooyen has told the Madlanga commission that taking political killings task team dockets to Pretoria for months without investigation, amounts to the suppression of inquiries. According to Van Rooyen, such mishandling of cases hinders ongoing investigations and undermines the effectiveness of police operations. She emphasised that the proper handling of dockets falls under the national police commissioner’s authority, not the Police minister:
SAPS legal expert warns months-long inactivity on political killings task team cases hinders justice [SOUND]
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