Cape Town - The soon-to-be defunct Scorpions had a staff vacancy rate of 43% in their top ranks last month, Justice Minister Enver Surty said in response to a written question in Parliament on Friday.
Under controversial legislation signed by President Kgalema Motlanthe earlier this year, the Scorpions will to be disbanded and assimilated into a new team fighting high-level crime - the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation.
It is meant to take over the full caseload of the Scorpions but will report not to the NPA but to the police.
Surty said Motlanthe still had to proclaim a date when the DSO would cease to function and what remained of it would become part of the new unit.
Source: SAPA
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