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“Select a team and proceed to KPH and UHWI, make an
assessment of all the persons that actually entered the
institutions, persons that were shot, hospitalised, treated
and sent home, if anything, and tell me about the bodies
that supposed to be there. Basically, those were my
directives to them.”
14.34.
ACP Gause said it was not possible to commence investigations on
25 May because “the atmosphere was not cool and calm. There was hostility
towards the security forces.” He returned to Tivoli on 26 May in the company of
SSP Stewart, Supt. Hinds, DSP Wellington and others comprising “a hot team”. A
post was established in Tivoli Gardens the same day at the Community Centre
simultaneously with one at Denham Town Police Station. In Tivoli, OPD also had
a desk and BSI and OPD shared information and worked together.
14.35.
Meetings were held after 25 May with the Public Defender himself
and other persons at which protocols were developed about how bodies were to
be treated, post mortems, treatment of firearms, fragments from bodies,
inter
alia
.
14.36.
On 26 May, ACP Gause gave SSP Stewart a directive that –
“henceforth BSI personnel, somebody from Scenes of Crime,
somebody from the photo section, somebody from Denham
Town be there until further orders to primarily hear
complaints, take statements, visit the particular areas…..This
continued at least 3½ to 4 weeks.”
14.37.
In respect of the scenes of possible extra-judicial killings,
ACP Gause said –
“I recall Mr. Witter indicating to me that there were certain
scenes in Tivoli that he believed extra-judicial killings would
have taken place… and he subsequently forwarded a list of
15 addresses to me...”
14.38.
He said in answer to the question whether he gave the list to
SSP Stewart or Det. Insp. Harris –