The Main Purpose of The Operations Directorate
Managing and overseeing all functions relating to operations; Authorisation, review, reporting of all investigations and prosecutions;
The Directorate of Special Operations is specifically mandated to deal with crimes committed in an organised fashion (high-level crimes of national impact). The DSO has initiated a number of nationally coordinated projects into high-level organised crime. These include investigations into:
- trans-national drug trafficking,
- human smuggling and trafficking
- cross-departmental fraud and corruption in Provincial Governments and National Government.
- fraud and corruption within the private business sector white-collar crime
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