Durban - Suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major-General Johan Booysen is expected to report for work on Monday.
“He was acquitted of all charges. I think he will be reporting for work this morning,” Booysen's lawyer Carl van der Merwe said on Monday morning.
Booysen was charged in August 2012 for racketeering, involving allegedly receiving payment to carry out hits in the KwaZulu-Natal minibus taxi wars.
Police however would not confirm or deny that he would return to work.
“The process has not yet been finalised and we will only comment afterwards,” national police spokesman Lieutenant-General Solomon Makgale said.
Earlier this year, all criminal charges against him were withdrawn. Police however pursued disciplinary charges against him which were linked to his alleged failure to act against members of the Cato Manor serious and violent crimes unit for their alleged excessive use of force.
KwaZulu-Natal's newspapers were on Monday dominated by news of Booysen's acquittal and extracts from the report by advocate Nazeer Cassim SC, which detailed his findings from the police's internal inquiry. - Sapa