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IPID Amendment Draft Bill: briefing, Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill, Committee Reports
9 May 2018
Document: Committee Report on IPID Amendment Bill [available at Tabled Committee Reports once published in ATC]
The Committee completed clause by clause deliberations on the final chapter of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill and approved the proposed amendment to clause 18(8). Members asked if there was is precedent for the ...
Small Business Development
Committee Report on DSBD Budget
2 May 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development met to enable Members to interrogate the draft report on the Department of Small Business Development’s Budget Vote 31 for the first time. Due to the absence of some Members the Acting Chairperson had to co-opt members of other committees for the meeting ...
Police
Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: Committee report on amendments
25 Apr 2018
The Committee met to consider the A-list of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill [B22-2017]. The legal team first presented the amendments that were added to the A-list of the Bill. Amongst others, these included the insertion of new definitions of “government infrastructure”, “national security” and Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority. ...
Police
Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) 2018/19 budget
24 Apr 2018
Annual Performance Plan (APP) of Government Departments & Entities 2018/19
The Chairperson raised three issues for discussion ahead of the presentation by the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) of its annual performance plan. He asked Members to provide input on the protests in North West Province, the incident at ...
Police
SAPS 2018/19 Budget: CSP & IPID
20 Apr 2018
Annual Performance Plan (APP) of Government Departments & Entities 2018/19
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSP) briefed the Committee on budgets and Annual Performance Plans (APP) for the 2018/19 financial year. Both entities briefed Members on key targets, indicators, strategic priorities/objectives and performance of ...
Police
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
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 ...