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Who is the Cold Case Unit answerable to?

Institutional AccountabilityDay 5Day 6226 July 2026
Legal commentary
The record splits on the unit's reporting line: it is described as "a unit that has always reported to the Office of the National Commissioner," and, elsewhere, as one that "is not reporting to the National Commissioner." Command responsibility is the hinge — an investigative unit whose chain of accountability is itself disputed creates a gap in which no office clearly owns its conduct or its results. Which account holds, and for which period, is not settled on the record.
In plain terms
Even the basic question — who does this unit answer to? — gets two opposite answers in the evidence. If nobody agrees who is in charge, nobody is clearly accountable for what the unit does, or fails to do.
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