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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point I am trying to make is that when I confronted the provincial and district security teams, they threw their hands up in the air. They said: “Sir, we do not know what is happening. We have given the order, but there is somebody else controlling the Police Force”. That is a fact. The fact of the matter is that we put together 87 postmortem reports, with 87 documentations on these people, and sent them through human rights organisations. That is probably why the then Police Commissioner is among those who have cases at The Hague. Maybe, he is at The Hague because he was not in control of the Police Force. Now that we will have an Inspector-General of the National Police Service, this will detach the Police Force from political men; we shall get somewhere. The “police state” must now come to an end. We must not go back to where we came from. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have seen somewhere in the Bill where it says that within ten days after commencement of this Act, the Inspector-General of the National Police Service must be appointed. I plead that once this Bill has been approved, the Government will put the Act in operation immediately. The Government pushed us today to sit overtime, and we do not want to wait for another three months for the appointment of the Inspector-General. I expect the Inspector-General to be appointed within two or three weeks, whichever is feasible, of the passing of the Bill. I am very pleased about the re-establishment of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs."
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