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Crime Intelligence Progress Report & Vetting
1 Dec 2017
The Committee firstly welcomed the appointment of the new national police commissioner. Members were particularly pleased that someone from within the police service - who had so much experience and was familiar with the challenges faced by SAPS - had been promoted. They observed that in their interactions with the ...
Police
DPCI firearms and narcotics units; Firearms audit at Western Cape stations; Festive Season operations
29 Nov 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI) on its specialised firearms and narcotics units, and by the South African Police Service on the findings from the firearms audits at the Mitchells Plain and Bellville South police stations in the Western Cape. The SAPS also gave ...
Police
Committee Reports on Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority Annual Report & APP
22 Nov 2017
Document handed out: Committee Report on Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority 2016/17 Annual Report; Committee Report on PSIRA 2017/18 Budget Vote, Annual Performance Plan and strategic plan [available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Committee considered and adopted the Draft Report on the 2016/17 annual report of the Private Security Industry ...
Police
Firearms Amnesty: SAPS briefing; Crime Intelligence on Quarter 2 performance & vetting process
15 Nov 2017
Members of the Committee expressed shock that a brigadier in the South African Police Service (SAPS), who was under investigation for accepting R50 000 for providing a fellow officer with an illegal clearance certificate several months ago, had been nominated to undertake an official visit to France this month. They also ...
Police
DPCI on missing firearms at Western Cape police stations; illegal mining; illicit financial flows; SAPS KZN response to Committee oversight
14 Nov 2017
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI) briefed the Committee on the status of investigations into the Mitchell’s Plain and Bellville South Police Station missing firearms. On 17 October 2017, police officers from Manenberg Crime Intelligence and Visible Policing, stopped and searched a known adult male gang member, who is ...
Police
IPID + CSP on Quarter 2 performance
7 Nov 2017
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and Civil Secretariat for Police (CSP) briefed the Committee on their performance during the second quarter of the 2017-18 financial year.
The CSP reported it had filled 143 of its 150 vacant posts by the end of the quarter, resulting in a vacancy rate ...
Police
SAPS & DPCI Quarter 2 performance
1 Nov 2017
The South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI) briefed the Committee on their Quarter 2 performance.
SAPS said that 73.32% of its targets were achieved, 21.93% were not achieved, while 1.75% of targets were not measured. It had filled more than 99% of its ...
Police
Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: Civilian Secretariat for Police briefing
25 Oct 2017
The Civilian Secretariat for Police Service briefed the Committee on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill. The discussions were preliminary as the Bill was yet to be sent out for public comments.
The Bill sought to bring the legal framework for the protection of critical infrastructure in line with the constitutional ...
Police
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 ...