Hawks should not be an autonomous unit: Zuma
President Jacob Zuma has suggested accountability would be lost if a Constitutional Court bid to have the Hawks declared an autonomous unit from the police was successful, the Sunday Independent reported.
"However serious the threat of corruption and however dire the need for an independent DPCI [Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation] to avoid government shielding itself against policing of corrupt members, the Hawks cannot be an absolutely independent stand-alone unit," said Zuma -- in...read more here: Hawks should not be an autonomous unit: Zuma
