Former police minister, Bheki Cele , says he thinks that the appointment of Riah Phiyega as National Police Commissioner in 2012 was a deliberate attempt to weaken the SAPS.
Cele told the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee that is investigating allegations including corruption and criminal infiltration in the justice system.
Phiyega was first woman to hold the post as a National Commissioner. However, she was suspended in October 2015 by the former President Jacob Zuma following a recommendation of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the deaths of protesting miners in Marikana in 2012.