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SAPS 2018/19 Budget: Programme 3 Detectives & DPCI; Programme 5 Protection & Security Services
19 Apr 2018
The South African Police Service (SAPS) said that the purpose of Programme 3: Detective Services is to enable the investigative work of the SAPS, including providing support to investigators in terms of forensic evidence and the Criminal Record Centre. Detective Services has four sub programmes: Crime Investigation; Criminal Record Centre; ...
Police
SAPS 2018/19 Budget: Programme 1 Administration; Programme 2 Visible Policing
18 Apr 2018
There was a problem of instability in the leadership of the South African Police Service (SAPS), and this was something that needed to be dealt with. There had been a decline in the levels of violence, but the declines in crime were not significant as the country was yet to ...
Police
Minister of Police on SAPS 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan & stakeholder hearings
17 Apr 2018
The Committee held South African Police Service (SAPS) budget hearings in the presence of the Minister where there were submissions from various stakeholders. This was followed by the Minister's briefing on the SAPS budget and plans.
The South African Policing Union (SAPU) said that it hoped that in filling vacant ...
Police
High profile cases & Marikana progress report: IPID briefing; DPCI 2016/17 Annual report
29 Mar 2018
The South African Police Service (SAPS) functioned as a matrix of corruption, with the exception of a few police officers. The biggest threat to South Africa’s national security was because of corruption within SAPS. Any organisation that was fighting crime in the world needed good organisation and effective intelligence, but ...
Police
Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: deliberations
23 Mar 2018
The Committee continued with its deliberations on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill [B22-2017] focusing on the amendments that had been effected by the legal drafting team from the previous engagement.
There were no changes effected to clause 4(2) on the composition of the Council, as the general consensus was that ...
Police
Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: deliberations
22 Mar 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Parliamentary Legal Advisor (PLA) on the legal opinion with regard to the classification of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill [B22-2017]. The PLA highlighted that the Bill had been introduced as a proposed section 75 Bill. The Bill was technical in nature and did ...
Police
PSIRA briefing
20 Mar 2018
The Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) briefed the Committee on matters in the public domain. It described its role as being to protect the fundamental rights of persons, and to promote a legitimate private security industry which acted in accordance with the principles contained in the Constitution, and with ...
Police
Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: PSIRA on role of private security; Council funding; overlap with Cybercrimes Bill; response to Eskom submission
14 Mar 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Private Security Regulating Authority (PSIRA) on the role of the Regulator in the implementation of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill [B22-2017].
The Regulator reported that the facility becomes an In-house employer of the security officers as defined in the Code of Conduct for ...
Police
Fixed establishment of police stations: SAPS, Social Justice Coalition, SAPU and POPCRU briefing
13 Mar 2018
The Committee received briefings from the South African Police Service (SAPS), Social Justice Coalition (SJC), South African Police Union (SAPU) and Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) on processes regarding the fixed establishment of the police stations.
SAPS said an organisational development accessibility study had been conducted, which had ...
Police
NPA progress on prosecution of State Capture cases
7 Mar 2018
The joint meeting between the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services and the Portfolio Committee on Police was called because the previous week Lt Gen Yoliswa Matakata, Acting Head, Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation had informed the Police Portfolio Committee that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was hindering progress in ...