Diane de Beer Talks to “Shy” Serial Sleuth, Piet Byleveld, About Good Old-Fashioned Policework

In an interview with Diane de Beer, a shy Piet Byleveld reveals his surprise at becoming a household name in South Africa, aided now in part by the success of Hanlie Retief’s biography, Piet Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth. Byleveld attributes most of his success as a cop to “old-fashioned police work”, saying he begins every case at the source – by investigating the victim:

How many of us know a cop’s name? Not in the sense of neighbourhood, but famous. When reading Hanlie Retief’s account of Piet Byleveld’s life aptly titled Byleveld – Dossier of a Serial Sleuth, one realises he is probably our only well-known cop in the sense that no one wonders who you’re talking about when you say his name.

“It’s not as if I was out there looking for publicity,” says the almost shy sleuth as we meet at a Pretoria News/WritersSpeak event last week at which he was the guest speaker. In fact, much of Byleveld’s life has been spent zooming in on one crime or another, with very little time or space for any real life.

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• Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth by Hanlie Retief
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• Byleveld: Dossier van ‘n baasspeurder by Hanlie Retief
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