Former provincial SAPS spokeswoman Brigadier Marinda Mills has been removed from her office.Sources in the provincial office told the Saturday Dispatch that Colonels Sibongile Soci and Michelle Matroos were acting in her position.
Asked about the move, Mills replied: “I am no longer at the communications department. Speak to Colonel Soci about any communication issues.”
When contacted, Soci said: “It is not SAPS policy to discuss internal matters with the media.”
However, a source said Mills had been deployed “to the police wellness unit, which is linked to the SAPS chaplains”, said the source.
A second source however questioned why Mills was still at work while Lieutenant-Colonel Nicole Brown, who is facing fraud charges along with Mills, is sitting at home.
Mills and Brown have been charged with forgery, corruption and fraud after a year-long probe.
According to police documents, Brown is accused of submitting a travel claim to Mills regarding a road trip to Pretoria in March 2013.
Brown submitted a claim for a four-day trip and claimed that she had booked into the Morningside City Lodge in Sandton.
“A submission was made by Brigadier Mills that she knew would never go to Pretoria. But she approved her claim as false as it was,” the documents state.
“The brigadier further said she knew was to send a reservist in her place to Pretoria.”
The claimed amount was R3553.70. Mills did not financially benefit from the claim.
Both are out of warning after they appeared in Zwelitsha Magistrate’s Court. They are expected back in court on February 19.
“The question one asks is why one is suspended while another person is sitting in the office,” the source said. “That provincial office must treat every employee equally.
“We don’t want to protest for simple things to be done right.” — bonganif@dispatch.co.za
SAPS liaison head exits office
Sources in the provincial office told the Saturday Dispatch that Colonels Sibongile Soci and Michelle Matroos were acting in her position.
Asked about the move, Mills replied: “I am no longer at the communications department. Speak to Colonel Soci about any communication issues.”
When contacted, Soci said: “It is not SAPS policy to discuss internal matters with the media.”
However, a source said Mills had been deployed “to the police wellness unit, which is linked to the SAPS chaplains”, said the source.
A second source however questioned why Mills was still at work while Lieutenant-Colonel Nicole Brown, who is facing fraud charges along with Mills, is sitting at home.
Mills and Brown have been charged with forgery, corruption and fraud after a year-long probe.
According to police documents, Brown is accused of submitting a travel claim to Mills regarding a road trip to Pretoria in March 2013.
Brown submitted a claim for a four-day trip and claimed that she had booked into the Morningside City Lodge in Sandton.
“A submission was made by Brigadier Mills that she knew would never go to Pretoria. But she approved her claim as false as it was,” the documents state.
“The brigadier further said she knew was to send a reservist in her place to Pretoria.”
The claimed amount was R3553.70. Mills did not financially benefit from the claim.
Both are out of warning after they appeared in Zwelitsha Magistrate’s Court. They are expected back in court on February 19.
“The question one asks is why one is suspended while another person is sitting in the office,” the source said. “That provincial office must treat every employee equally.
“We don’t want to protest for simple things to be done right.” — bonganif@dispatch.co.za
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