Jan Judeel

Jan Judeel, was a member of the South African Police Service for 28 years, of which he was a detective for 25 years within the SAPS. 

He started his career as a police officer in 1985 and after completing his training at the Pretoria SAPS Police college he was transferred to Unit 19, a reaction unit that operated from Head Office in Pretoria, in 1989 he was transferred to the Soweto Vehicle Theft Unit as a detective, it is here that he started his career as a detective.

During 1994 after the 1st democratic election in South Africa he was transferred to the Krugersdorp Detective services. 

during 1996 he was transferred to the West Rand Fraud Unit, it was here that he started his career as a fraud specialist, in 2002 all the Fraud units within Gauteng was amalgamated into 3 Commercial Crime Investigation Units (CCIU). 

Jan Judeel was transferred to the Johannesburg office of the CCIU and was part of a group of investigators that investigated high profile matters. 

in 2010 the Johannesburg CCIU form part of the Directorate Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI-HAWKS), Jan Judeel was part of the DPCI till 2014, and terminated his service with the SAPS on the 28th of August 2014 with the Rank as Captain.

During his time of service within the CCIU he investigated vireos high profile matters with great success in the Magistrate, Regional and High Court. He also travelled to the following countries for investigation: Washington DC in the USA, Sidney Australia, Rome Italy and Beira Mozambique.

One of many highlights in his investigations will be the matter relating to two employees of the United Nations World Food Program, the suspects was arrested in October 2005 and convicted in December  2012, the suspect was sentence almost a year later to 15 years per charge,  18 charges of Fraud caring the minimum sentence of 15 years per count  in total 270 years, all the counts was taken together for sentence and they were sentence to 25 years direct imprisonment as first offenders, more that a person will get for murder under normal circumstances.