2019-w953 - 05 November 2019

Leon Amos Schreiber to ask the MINISTER OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION

(1) What number of public service employees have been found to have criminal records (a) in each of the past five calendar years and (b) since 1 January 2019; (2) What mechanisms has his department put in place to conduct vetting of potential public service employees to ensure that those with criminal records are not employed as public servants?

Reply from the MINISTER OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION on 5 Nov 2019

1. The personnel suitability checks as prescribed by the Minister for the Public Service and Administration emanate from the National Vetting Strategy that resides with the State Security Agency. Departments keep their own databases on criminal records and information is not captured on the PERSAL system. A similar question was posed to me, when it was asked in the NCOP in relation to the ...

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