It took the Hawks serious organised crime team 10 minutes to verify whether police at the alleged cartel member Katiso KT Molefes home were impersonating the process took the units tactical operations management section Toms an hour.
Allegations before the Madlanga commission are that there is a group of Hawks officers who interfered with a Gauteng counterintelligence operation that was arresting Molefe at his home on December 6 for his alleged role in the killing of Vaal engineer Armand Swart.
Both Hawks teams arrived at the scene at the same time, the commission heard.