KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi used his first of testimony at the commission of inquiry to demonstrate that there were outside forces involved in the decision to disband the political task team.
He said a letter on the task team's disbandment had gone back and forth between the authors and the police minister before the chief of staff's office was pressurised to send it to the national commissioner.
Mkhwanazi who was the first witness at the Madlanga commission of inquiry into police criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system, chaired by retired justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, which began on Wednesday said suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu did not have the power to disband the team formed by the interministerial committee to investigate political killings.