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Procurement, Polmed, Buildings & Accommodation: SAPS, SAPU and POPCRU briefing
24 May 2017
The South African Police Service (SAPS) briefed the Committee on its procurement and contract management. The procurement of goods, works and services was done through quotations or a bidding process within the threshold values as determined by the National Treasury. All procurement actions in SAPS are governed by Legislation and ...
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Committee Reports on SAPS, IPID, CSP Budget
17 May 2017
The Committee considered three reports, namely,
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Farlam recommendations: SAPS & IPID progress report; Firearms Amnesty: Minister of Police briefing
15 Mar 2017
The Committee received briefings from the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) on the Farlam Commission progress report. The Minister of Police also briefed the Committee on the firearms amnesty.
The first finding from the Farlam Commission on equipment highlighted that all radio communications ...
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SAPS Crime Statistics: April to December 2016, with Minister
3 Mar 2017
The South Africa Police Service reported on the crime statistics for the last nine months of 2016/17 and compared them to 2015/6. There were 960 000 serious crimes cases reported to SAPS over the nine-month period (that is, 3 550 crimes every day or 148 crimes per hour). The biggest ...
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Specialised Units: SAPS progress report; Politically-motivated killings in KwaZulu-Natal: SAPS briefing
1 Mar 2017
The Committee received a briefing by the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (Hawks) on the establishment of specialised units, namely, the National Bureau for Illegal Firearm and Priority Violent Crime (NBIFCPVC) and South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB). The NBIFCPVC would prioritise forensic linkages, stock control, transactional networks, police killings ...
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Petitions: consideration
28 Feb 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Police met to discuss five petitions of a general nature that were referred from the National Assembly. The Committee together with the Committee’s Content Advisor,discussed the petitions, some of the issues that came up include:
The uncertainty of some Committee Members on how to deal with ...
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Police BRRR implementation; Moffatview Police Station & Operations during festive period: SAPS briefing
22 Feb 2017
The Committee received briefings from the South African Police Service (SAPS) on the implementation of the Budget Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) implementation. The Committee had recommended that the Department needed to provide Members with an Action Plan to ensure effective monitoring of pocket books and the implementation of monitoring ...
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Civilian Secretariat for Police & IPID on BRRR implementation plan; High Profile cases: IPID briefing
15 Feb 2017
The Committee received briefings from the Civilian Secretariat for Police (CPS) and Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) on the Budget Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) implementation plan. IPID also briefed the Committee on a number of ongoing high profile cases in the country.
CSP highlighted that it would include a ...
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Private Security Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) on BRRR implementation plan
8 Feb 2017
The Committee received a briefing from PSIRA on their implementation plan for the Committee’s Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR). Mr Nkosinathi Nhleko, Minister of Police introduced the chairperson of the PSIRA Council and all the new Council Members that had been elected.
PSIRA had achieved 84% of its objectives, ...
The Minister of Police briefed the Committee on various matters, followed by a briefing by South African Police Services Management on some of the same issues that the Minister had covered around performance and Festive Season plans.
The Minister firstly explained (and SAPS later amplified a little and took questions ...