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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 ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review: proposed programme for public hearings
20 Mar 2018
The Joint Committee on Constitutional Review was given a mandate by the National Assembly and the National Provincial Council of Provinces to review of Section 25 of the Constitution, and other clauses where necessary, to make it possible for the state to expropriate land in the public interest without compensation. ...
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 ...
Police
Crime Statistics Methodology; SAPS & State Security Agency vetting & turnaround strategy; with Minister
6 Mar 2018
Relevant: Crime Intelligence Progress Report & Vetting; Firearms Amnesty: SAPS briefing; Crime Intelligence on Quarter 2 performance & vetting process
The South African Police Service (SAPS) briefed the Committee on the Turnaround Strategy and status of vetting of Crime Intelligence and other senior Members, in the presence of the new ...
Police
Hawks high profile investigations
28 Feb 2018
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI) provided the Committee with a detailed explanation of its role in investigating state capture allegations – and its frustration at the delays in getting the go-ahead to make arrests. It also provided a progress report on its specialised units dealing with illegal firearms ...
Police
Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: deliberations
21 Feb 2018
The Committee continued with its deliberations on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill [B22 2017].
The Department of Police proposed the removal of the verification process in clause 12(9) to earlier in the process, in order to prevent a situation where the application started with the Minister and then had to ...