There was an active and sustained attack on the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) to stymie its criminal investigations into members of the police crime intelligence unit, through the suspension and persecution of Ipid managers, former police watchdog boss Robert McBride told the state capture commission of inquiry on Thursday.
”The purpose of my evidence is to help this commission and to express my own experience as Ipid head…and what I observed. A number of litigations, persecutions and judgments had led to my believe that there was an attack on the anti-corruption drive. My suspension in 2015 was meant to do that. Senior managers were removed through suspensions, spurious disciplinary hearings, and people who were not equipped to deal with the tasks diligently were installed…and one would hear a narrative that performances improved in the aftermath of the removal of managers.”
McBride headed the Ipid between 2014 and February 2019 when his
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