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Police stations: Public Works facilities management
13 Nov 2018
The South African Police Service (SAPS) described a litany of challenges it was experiencing in respect of services provided by the Department of Public Works (DPW). When the DPW indicated that they had not come to the meeting prepared to respond to the SAPS complaints, the debate became heated and ...
Police
SAPS on Contract Management; Irregular Expenditure; Consequence Management; SITA Contracts; Bid Committees
7 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the SA Police Service (SAPS) to be briefed on matters relating to contract management, status of the bid committees, irregular expenditure and to get a sense of the broader governance matters and plans in place which led to qualified findings in the past to avoid possible ...
Police
Firearms Control Amendment Bill (Private Member’s Bill): briefing
6 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by Hon P Groenewald on his Private Member’s Bill on firearms licensing currently.
Dr Groenewald said that his proposal was to address the current dilemma were 400 000 plus firearms licensed gun owners had found themselves to be illegally in possession of firearms after a constitutional court ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Review of Section 25 of Constitution: draft Committee Report
1 Nov 2018
Draft Committee Report not availabe to public
The Constitutional Review Committee met to review the draft report on the possible review of section 25 of the constitution. The working document outlines the methodology that was used to elicit views from the public on the review of section 25, the summary ...
Police
Integrated Justice System (IJS): SAPS, Treasury
31 Oct 2018
[PMG missed the first hour of the meeting and subsequently missed National Treasury’s presentation – see presentation attached].
A summary of the presentation showed that National Treasury briefed the Committee on the issues underlying the budget allocation and spending for the implementation of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) 7 Point ...
Police
High Crime Areas: SAPS strategy, Community Policing Forums, CSP research; with the Minister
30 Oct 2018
The five police stations in areas with the highest crime rates in the country came under the spotlight when the Committee was briefed by the South African Police Service, the heads of the local community policing forums (CPFs) and the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS).
The five police stations ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: oral submissions
26 Oct 2018
VIDEO: Constitutional Review Committee Oral Presentations, 26 October 2018
Report of the High Level Panel on the assessment of key legislation
The Committee held the last of the public hearings on the question of the Amendment of section 25 of the Constitution and expropriation without compensation.
The FW De Klerk ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: oral submissions
25 Oct 2018
VIDEO: Constitutional Review Committee Oral Presentations, 25 October 2018
The African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) said the Land Audit Report of 2017 glaringly shows the land ownership patterns in South Africa as skewed towards whites and corporate entities. The previous land reform programmes were a mere piecemeal with ...
Police
Crime Statistics 2017/18 analysis: Stats SA, Academic Civil Society, CSPS and SAPS
24 Oct 2018
The Committee met with the SA Police Service (SAPS), Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSPS), Statistics SA and civil society organisations to analyse the 2017/18 crime statistics.
The Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS) began by providing the Committee with an analysis of the 2017/18 crime stats. The presentation addressed murder ...
Police
Transkei/Ciskei police re-enlistment petition
23 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss a petition calling for the re-enlistment of former members of the Ciskei and Transkei police. They were first briefed by the representative of the former members, who said they were dissatisfied with the South African Police Service (SAPS) decision not to approve their re-employment ...