Chairperson, on behalf of Cope, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
(1) notes the urgent necessity for the Minister of Police to openly and thoroughly investigate who authorised the visit by two police officials to the office of the Public Protector and why this was done without observing the protocol which routinely prevails between agencies of state;
(2) further notes the urgent necessity of assuring the Public Protector that the independence of her office was constitutionally guaranteed and that no one working in that office should ever feel traumatised again because of the police unconstitutionally attempting to violate that constitutional right; and
(3) acknowledges the need for those who authorised the visit, ostensibly to intimidate the Public Protector, to have criminal charges levelled against them.