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The Crime Intelligence Unit (CI)recently appointed 90 new members to be deployed at 30 of the country’s top police stations.

JOHANNESBURG - Adequately capacitating the South African Police Service’s Crime Intelligence Unit is a process that requires time.Sibiya, who spoke to Eyewitness News at a police briefing in Pretoria on Tuesday morning, said the process of vetting each member before employment was tedious and slow.

The Crime Intelligence Unit recently appointed 90 new members to be deployed at 30 of the country’s top police stations."We are in the process of employing senior managers within respective positions within CI just to make sure that we have a tight grip on the management of crime intelligence.""We need to make sure that everyone who comes in there is properly vetted.

Crime Intelligence was recently given the green light by Parliament to use certain technologies in their fight against crime.

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