Parliament Portfolio Committee on Police will be looking into why protection was removed from the home of slain AGU cop Charl Kinnear.
The committee this week made a commitment to the widow of the murdered Anti-Gang Unit detective that it will seek justice and ensure accountability for the death of her husband.
This after the committee considered a petition from Nicolette Kinnear on Tuesday, highlighting a number of questions that still need to be addressed, reports the Cape Argus.
"We will keep this matter on the programme of the committee until we find answers to the questions you have raised," said Committee chairperson Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
In her petition, Nicolette wanted to know why protection services were removed from their home on 19 December 2019 and what happened between 6 September 2020 up to the day of her husband’s murder.
Kinnear was shot and killed outside his home in Bishop Lavis on 18 September.
The only suspect arrested was Zane Kilian, who owns a tracking and investigation company, and who has been accused of tracking Kinnear’s cellphone.
Kilian, whose bail application was expected to resume in the Bellville Regional Court today, was arrested in Gauteng on 23 September.
Nicolette told the committee that her husband informed her on 5 September that his phone was being tracked.
Police Minister Bheki Cele explained that on 13 December 2019 a decision was taken to withdraw the protection detail based on the fact that the deployment was an interim measure, pending the outcome of a formal threat assessment by National Counter Intelligence.
Cele said the threat assessment was never finalised due to Kinnear’s reluctance to cooperate with NCI: "Consequently the threat could not be confirmed at the time, resulting in the withdrawal of the static protection," he said.
The assessment was delayed last year due to the pandemic.