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SAPS Quarter 1 performance; with Deputy Minister
4 Sep 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to receive briefings by the South African Police Service on their First Quarterly Report. The Deputy Minister of Police attended the meeting.
The SAPS Management reported that although the expenditures of each quarter in a financial year was indicative of nature, it would not be precisely ...
Police
Crimes against women and children: SAPS, COSATU, Civil Society input; with Minister of Police
29 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committees on Police and Women in the Presidency met jointly for the second of a two-day special focus on the Domestic Violence Act and crimes against women and children. Minister of Police, Mr Bheki Cele, was present.
The SA Police Service (SAPS) presented on the progress made by ...
Police
Police Station security; Audit Findings action plan; SAPS Contract Management; Visible Policing & Detectives Performance Management
21 Aug 2018
The Committee met with the SA Police Service (SAPS) on matters arising from the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) in relation to performance management (Visible Policing and Detective Services) and progress made with previous audit findings. The audit committee also presented on progress made with interventions. With the progress made on ...
Police
DPCI: Turnaround Strategy on High Profile cases; SANTACO on taxi crimes; with Minister
15 Aug 2018
The meeting consisted of four presentations:
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation or the Hawks who presented on their turnaround strategy and briefed the Committee on certain high-profile cases;
The South African National Taxi Association on taxi violence;
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) on taxi violence and ...
Police
DNA Board Annual Performance Plan & SAPS feedback; Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: finalisation
14 Aug 2018
The meeting was convened to finalise the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill, the tabling of a referral from the Speaker on the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), a briefing by the National Forensic Oversight and Ethics Board (DNA Board), and to attend to Committee business.
The Committee agreed that it had ...
Police
IPID Amendment Bill deliberations & approval, Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill deliberations
4 Jul 2018
The Committee continued with deliberations on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill by firstly focusing on clause 16 to 20. In these deliberations, Members questioned appeal process and lodging of disputes (clause 16), deviation from publication of the notice in the Government Gazette, disagreement on the determination of critical infrastructure, overriding ...
Police
IPID Amendment Bill: deliberations & approval; Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: deliberations
3 Jul 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Police received written and oral submissions on the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Amendment Bill and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill from various organizations.
IPID pointed out that the IPID Amendment Bill in its current form was inconsistent with the order of the Constitutional Court, following ...
Police
IPID Amendment Bill: briefing & public hearings; Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: legal opinion
28 Jun 2018
The Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSP) and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the IPID Amendment Bill.
The CSPS and IPID proposed the amendment of section 6(1) by the insertion of paragraphs 6(1)(a) – (e) and the repeal of section 6(3)(a) of the Act in ...
Police
SAPS Procurement & Contract Management; SAPS Ministerial Task Team report
14 Jun 2018
The South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Ministerial Task Team briefed the Portfolio Committee on the Department’s contract management and the procurement processes, and gave an update on the Ministerial Transformation Task Team.
The SAPS described its procurement and supply chain management (SCM) processes, indicating the levels of authority ...
Police
Cash in Transit heists: SAPS and stakeholders on combating measures; with the Minister
13 Jun 2018
The South African Police Service (SAPS) and security industry stakeholders briefed the Committee on the measures which had been introduced, or were under consideration, to combat the recent spate of violent cash-in-transit (CIT) heists.
SAPS said that due to the recent spike in the incidence of CITs, both the SAPS ...