36/1/4/1/201200070
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 722
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 16 MARCH 2012
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 8- 2012)
Date reply submitted: 17 April 2012
722. Mrs A Steyn (DA) to ask the Minister of Police:
Whether any progress has been made with regard to the investigation into
the cases of the disappearance of two persons (names furnished); if not,
(a) why not, (b) how many police officers are investigating each case, (c)
what is the rank of each investigating officer and (d) how many cases is
each officer investigating concurrently; if so, what are the relevant
details in each case?
NW887E
REPLY:
The investigation into the disappearance of the two persons is conducted in
case docket Orlando CAS 751/07/2011 (kidnapping) and in Moroka CAS
117/08/2011 (kidnapping). The missing persons have been circulated as
missing at the Bureau for Missing Persons, as well as with Interpol, and
their photographs are also circulated on the National Photographic Image
System. Their disappearance was widely reported on in the printed media.
Several leads were followed up in Hillbrow, Mamelodi, Sebokeng and Welkom,
and their cellular phone records were obtained, but with negative results.
a) Up to date, both missing persons could not be traced and there were no
leads as to their whereabouts.
b) Both case dockets are investigated by only one investigating officer
each, but they are assisted by other members of the SAPS, if and when
the need arises.
c) The investigating officer in Orlando CAS 751/07/2011 is a captain at
the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit (FCS)
in Orlando Cluster, and in Moroka CAS 117/08/2011 the investigating
officer is a sergeant at the FCS Unit of Moroka Cluster.
d) The investigating officer in Orlando CAS 751/07/2011 has three other
case dockets on hand, which are about charges of rape, sexual assault
and kidnapping.
The investigating officer in Moroka CAS 117/08/2011 has ten other case
dockets on hand, which are about charges such as rape, child abuse,
sexual assault and kidnapping.
Reply to question 722 approved by the Minister