I voted against the appointed of Mr Mc Bride as the head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) having carefully considered his actions post 1994. However, Mr Mc Bride pulled up is socks and did a damn fine job indeed. According to the ANC scope, a study group just six months ago it was pleased with a progress being made by IPID in its probe into cases. Mc Bride created a team, he survived a political attack by one of the three Ministers he worked under, the creator of "Fire Pull" the movie. And, when the charges were chucked out of court he returned and rebuild what had all been destroyed by the SAPS and went out to route out massive State Capture corruption, the stealing of billions of rands from the SAPS budget. Our meetings were never about extending Mr Mc Bride's contract as allowed in the act or even about appointing a new IPID head. They were, I