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Crime Statistics 2016/17: SAPS briefing
24 Oct 2017
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula, on the release of the annual national crime statistics yesterday, was scathing of the police’s 'lazy' efforts in tackling crime and harshly critical of police leadership and key police units. Although the statistics released for the April 2016 to March 2017 period show that crime has ...
Police
PSIRA 2016/17 Annual Report & Quarter 1 performance
18 Oct 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) on its 2016/17 annual report, and was informed that it had achieved an unmodified audit opinion, and 85% of its planned targets had been achieved. There had been a strengthening of the relationship between ...
Police
Minister of Police briefing; SAPS, IPID & CSP Budgetary Review and Recommendations Reports
6 Oct 2017
Crime fighting in SA would be intelligence-led. The Minister of Police, Mr Fikile Mbalula revealed this when he briefed the Portfolio Committee on Police of drastic plans to tighten police operations in the country.
Minister Mbalula stated that visible policing needs extra personnel. There are challenges facing the Department because ...
Police
Civilian Secretariat for Police & IPID 2016/17 Annual Reports
4 Oct 2017
The total budget for the Civilian Secretariat was R110.6 million for the 2016/17 financial year. As of 1 March 2017, the Civilian Secretariat had exhausted 89.9 percent of its total budget. The administration programme accounted for around 40 percent of total expenditure as a result of centralised ...
Police
Situation in Philippi East; SAPS 2016/17 Annual Report
3 Oct 2017
The Committee met for its second day of hearings on the annual report of the South African Police Service (SAPS) for the 2016/17 financial year.
Beginning with the situation in Philippi East, SAPS reported that the Marikana informal settlement posed several infrastructural challenges which had exacerbated ...
Police
SAPS 2016/17 Annual Report
2 Oct 2017
The Committee met for its first day of hearings on the 2016/17 Annual Report of the SA Police Service (SAPS). Members were first briefed by the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) where it was pointed out that for the first time in eight years that SAPS received ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee minutes
14 Sep 2017
The Committee adopted all the outstanding minutes.
Police
IPID and Civilian Secretariat for Police on Quarter 1 performance
13 Sep 2017
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS) briefed the committee on their performance during the first quarter.
IPID reported that the financial year had begun with severe budgetary restraints, and R24 million in accruals from the previous year. These accruals had accounted for ...
Police
National Development Plan recommendations for Policing: SAPS, Civilian Secretariat for Police & Civil Society briefing
12 Sep 2017
The Committee was briefed by the South African Police Service (SAPS), Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSP), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Corruption Watch (CW) on implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP).
The CSP explained its role and outlined recommendations from the NDP it had already begun implementing. ...
Police
Domestic Violence Act Reports: SAPS & Civilian Secretariat for Police briefing
6 Sep 2017
The Committee received a briefing by the Western Cape Provincial Commissioner on the theft of firearms in Mitchell’s Plain and Bellville South police stations which occurred last month. The Cluster Commander at Mitchell’s Plain reported the theft of firearms after conducting an inspection of the police station. There were a ...