Overview
- Retired deputy chief Revo Spies testified that acting EMPD head Brig. Julius Mkhwanazi forged or altered documents and signed MOUs with Cat VIP and Medicare 24 that effectively outsourced core policing functions.
- Spies presented WhatsApp messages and an operational plan he described as altered, linking Mkhwanazi to coordinated operations with Cat VIP Security.
- The disputed agreements reportedly offered a helicopter capped at two flight hours per month and luxury vehicles, with private cars treated as EMPD assets and fitted with blue lights.
- Ekurhuleni’s DA says the city council never approved any EMPD–Cat VIP agreement, while Mkhwanazi is on special leave and the EMPD chief remains suspended as investigations proceed.
- Spies detailed a pattern of alleged crimes by EMPD officers, including copper theft and an unprosecuted 2022 kidnapping case, and alleged that IPID is probing a 2022 murder where officers were told to dump a body.