House Chair,
the State Security Agency wrote in combating gangsterism and organised crime is based on its mandate of collecting evidence and counting unconstitutional and illegal activities is South Africa that impact on its national security and stability. Due to a range of domestic challenges facing government, intelligence services as sensory organs for the protection of the country focuses on a range of security matters such as economic and environmental threats that are of critical importance to South Africans.
It must be highlighted that the State Security Agency mainly has the departmental supportive role in supporting government and departments and relevant government stakeholders such as South African Police Service on the threat or potential threat that gang activities and organised crime hold on national security of the country.
The agency supports Sars and other law enforcement agencies in terms of drug prosecution and identifies new trends and targets for
investigations as stipulated in the National Strategic Intelligence Act of 1994. In its work, the agency further remains cognisant of the legal and policy framework set out in Prevention of Organised Crime of 1998 and national anti-gangsterism strategy. Thank you very much.
IsiZulu: