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SAPS Portfolio Audit Outcomes; SAPS 2020/21 Annual Report; with Minister and Deputy Minister
10 Nov 2021
In a virtual meeting, the Committee received a presentation by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA), which highlighted that the South African Police Service (SAPS) had received an unqualified audit opinion for its 2020/21 financial performance. The Committee welcomed the overall improvement in the police portfolio's ...
Police
Western Cape Community Policing Forums & SAPS; with Deputy Minister
31 Aug 2021
The Committee held a virtual meeting to discuss community policing issues in the Western Cape province with the South African Police Service (SAPS), the Western Cape Department of Community Safety and the Cluster Chairpersons of the Community Policing Forums. This was to follow up on an earlier meeting held in ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Overseeing and scrutinising implementation of executive undertakings made by Minister of Police & President
26 Aug 2021
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings met on the virtual platform to receive a briefing from South African Police Service (SAPS) on Executive undertakings made to the NCOP on 27 October 2020. Those undertakings included the training process handling Gender Based Violence cases, training in forensic investigations ...
Police
IPID & CSPS 2020/21 Quarter performances (Q2,3 and 4); with Deputy Minister
25 Aug 2021
The Portfolio Committee on Police met virtually with the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS) to receive briefings on their quarterly performance reports for the last three quarters of the 2020/21 financial year.
The Committee suggested that IPID should plan towards making sure ...
Police
Central Firearms Registry & Forensic Science Laboratories; with Ministry
24 Aug 2021
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee met with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to receive an update on the progress within the Central Firearms Registry and Forensic Science Laboratories.
The first presentation focused on the firearm amnesties, the Central Firearms Registry Action Plan and reported stolen firearms ...
Police
SAPS 2020/21 Quarters 2, 3 and 4 performance; with Deputy Minister
18 Aug 2021
The Portfolio Committee on Police met virtually with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to receive a briefing on its performance reports for the final three quarters of the 2020/21 financial year.
The Chairperson introduced a feisty tone to proceedings by berating Committee Members who did not read documents that ...
Police
Parliamentary Inquiry ToR; SAPS & IPID Discipline Management; with Ministry
17 Aug 2021
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio adopted its Committee Report on oversight visits to KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Members noted that the oversight visit did not go as planned, mainly due to the length of the Minister and Departmental briefing. This resulted in time constraints and meant that the Committee ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Extent of recent unrest: SAPS & KZN briefing; with Minister and Deputy
13 Aug 2021
At a virtual meeting, the Committee was briefed by the Department of Police and the South African Police Services (the SAPS) on the recent civil unrest in the country. The Committee was also briefed by the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government on the recent unrest in the Province.
The Committee heard that ...
Police
Establishment of joint committee to probe July 2021 Violence: with Ministers (Police & Defence) + Deputy Ministers (Police & Justice)
30 Jul 2021
A joint meeting of the Portfolio Committees on Police, Defence, Justice and Correctional Services, the Select Committee on Security and Justice and the Joint Standing Committees on Defence and on Intelligence was held on a virtual platform and chaired by the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police. ...
Police
South African Police Service stability and restructuring
29 Jul 2021
The South African Police Service presentation noted challenges to organisational stability. SAPS experienced a net loss of 11 703 members from 2016/17 to 2020/21. SAPS noted that inadequate service delivery by government departments resulted in the over-extension of SAPS operation obligations and diverted resources away from policing functions. There ...