Police
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 ...
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
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 ...