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Alleged SAPS interference with IPID investigations: SAPS & IPID briefing
16 May 2017
The Committee convened a meeting to hear from the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), and its Executive Director, Mr Robert McBride, and the Acting National Commissioner of Police, Lt. Gen. Khomotso Phahlane, in light of the public tension between the two following allegations of interference in the IPID investigation by ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Committee Report on Department of Justice, Correctional Services & Office of Chief Justice Budgets
16 May 2017
The Committee considered the draft reports on the budgets for the Department of Justice, the Department of Correctional Services and the Office of the Chief Justice.
The Chairperson headed a page by page analysis of the three documents. In many of the documents, minor changes were required, either to grammar ...
Police
Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) on its Annual Performance Plan
10 May 2017
The Chairperson made a statement that the Portfolio Committee on Police had taken note of recent incidents in Vuwani, Coligny and Ennerdale, Eldorado Park and Richards Bay, where protests had escalated to violence and had led to damage of municipal infrastructure and residential housing. The Committee called on community members ...
Police
White Paper on Policing & White Paper on Safety and Security; DPCI "Hawks" office accommodation
8 Mar 2017
The Committee received briefings from the Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSP) on the White Paper on Policing and White Paper on Safety and Security. The overview of public submissions on the White Paper on Policing highlighted that there was lack of clarity on funding responsibilities. The White Paper failed to ...
Police
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 ...
Police
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 ...
Police
SAPS on recent matters in the public domain regarding the police leadership, with Minister present
2 Feb 2017
The South African Police Services (SAPS) provided a detailed summary of the public allegations as well as the findings into the allegations against the SAPS leadership for matters dating as far back as 2012. The allegations were investigated by CPN Forensic and Ernst & Young based on allegations raised by ...
Police
SAPS, IPID & CSP Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR)
18 Oct 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee discussed its draft reports on the 2015/16 Annual Report of the South African Police Services and the Civilian Secretariat for Police. Members pointed out several typographical errors and made suggestions for improving ambiguous areas of the reports. Some of the ...
Police
South African Police Service on its 2015/16 Annual Report
12 Oct 2016
The Committee met for its second day of hearings on the Annual Report for the 2015/16 financial year for the SA Police Service (SAPS). Beginning with the indicators, targets, actual performance, reasons for deviance, corrective actions and highlights for programme three: detective services, Members questioned reasons for big personnel losses ...
Police
Metro Police conduct of members; training and relationship with SAPS; Metro Police cases/outcomes: IPID briefing
7 Sep 2016
Senior South African Police Service management and Chiefs of the Metropolitan Police Services briefed the Committee on the mandate, units, training and relationship between Services as well as conduct of the Metropolitan Police Service members. Members were first prepped by the Committee’s Content Adviser who provided information on the establishment ...