People's Assembly

2023-w4545 - 03 January 2023

Zandile Majozi to ask the Minister of Police

What are the details of the number o cases of (a) assault on the elderly and (b) theft and/or embezzlement of SA Social Security Agency grant money of the elderly that were reported to the SA Police Service in 2021?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 3 Jan 2023

(a)(b) The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) did not deal with any cases, regarding the assault on the elderly and theft and/or embezzlement of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) grant money of the elderly in 2021.However, the DPCI is investigating number of other cases pertaining to the SASSA.

(a) The cases that are related to assault on elderly persons, for the ...

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2023-w4724 - 03 January 2023

Petrus Johannes Groenewald to ask the Minister of Police

(1) What is the current backlog of applications for firearms (a) licences and (b) competency certificates; (2) what is the number of such applications that are outstanding for longer than (a) two, (b) three, (c) four, and (d) five years?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 3 Jan 2023

1(a)(b) According to the enhanced Firearm Registration Syste, (EFRS) and the internal administrative processes of the Central Firearms Register (CFR), all firearms licence applications that outstanding for more than 120 working days, are regarded as a backlog. The number of outstanding applications for firearm licences and competency certificates, as at 2022-11-30, are reflected in the table below:

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2023-w4355 - 03 January 2023

Andrew Grant Whitfield to ask the Minister of Police

(1) What number of personnel (a) should be and (b) are actually employed at each 10111 centre in each province (i) in the (aa) 2020-21 and (bb) 2021-22 financial years and (ii) since 1 April 2022; (2) what number of dropped calls have been recorded in respect of each call centre in each province in each of the specified period?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 3 Jan 2023

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2022-w4575 - 12 December 2022

Henry Andries Shembeni to ask the Minister of Police

Following the discovery of the theft of firearms from the Norwood Police Station, (a) which operations have been conducted nationally to inspect police stations and (b) what were the finds?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 12 Dec 2022

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2022-w4524 - 12 December 2022

Mkhuleko Hlengwa to ask the Minister of Police

Whether he will furnish Mr M Hlengwa with a list of (a) all the satellite police stations that are not currently operational in KwaZulu-Natal and (b) the area that the specified satellite station serve; if not, why not; if so, what (i) are the relevant details and (ii) are the reasons that the satellite police stations are not operational ?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 12 Dec 2022

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2022-w4507 - 12 December 2022

Ockert Stefanus Terblanche to ask the Minister of Police

In light of the fact that the SA Police Service returned an amount of R31 806 000 allocated for the development of new police stations and other essential infrastructure projects to the National Treasury due to the apparent inability of his department and (b)(i) how and (ii) by what date the projects be constructed?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 12 Dec 2022

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2022-w4545 - 12 December 2022

Zandile Majozi to ask the Minister of Police

What are the details of the number of cases of (a) assault on the elderly and (b) theft and/or embezzlement of SA Social Security Agency grant money of the elderly that were reported to the SA Police Service in 2021?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 12 Dec 2022

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2022-w4546 - 12 December 2022

Zandile Majozi to ask the Minister of Police

Whether his department has any plans in place to avail persons who can communicate in sign language at police stations to ensure that persons with hearing impairments are able to report crime; if not, what alternative solutions does the SA Police Service currently have in place to ensure equality of access to justice for persons with disabilities; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 12 Dec 2022

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2022-w3748 - 05 December 2022

Annacleta Mathapelo Siwisa to ask the Minister of Police

What are the reasons that the SA Police Service failed to intercept the act of a women in Parow, who was on the verge of selling her 4 year –old child to paedophiles and which was only brought to the attention of the Government after the Federal Bureau of investigation intercepted the gruesome act of the mother?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 5 Dec 2022

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2022-w2457 - 29 November 2022

Henry Andries Shembeni to ask the Minister of Police

(1) Whether Lieutenant-General Bonga Mgwenya was directed and provided with a list of companies from which the SA Police Service (SAPS) had to procure personal protective equipment (PPE); if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, who directed and provided Lieutenant-General Bonang Mgwenya with the list of companies; (2) whether he held any meetings with Lieutenant-General Johannes Riet, Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya, Lieutenant-General Fannie Masemola, Lieutenant-General Mgwenya and Lieutenant Francinah Vuma on the procurement of PPE or the SAPS; if not, why not in each case; if so, what are the relevant details on each case?

Reply from the Minister of Police on 29 Nov 2022

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