32 Ipid investigators handle over 12 000 cases in Gauteng alone

2026-02-11 - 12:56

Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) investigators are drowning in case loads, as complaints about police officers pile up. Ipid acting national head of investigations Thuso Keefelakae appeared before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday and discussed the backlogs plaguing Ipid. “We are sitting at 11 947 cases and we have the active cases that were still under investigation as of the end of December 2025. We were sitting with 2 456. And the trend, chairperson, is that come the end of the financial year, we would be having 14 000 of the cases that are still active,” Keefelakae said. “They still need investigation. The investigation is not completed. And then the more we try to complete this backlog cases, this number of cases, then populate