3.5 The Committee agrees that the impact overcrowding has on service delivery to offenders must be closely monitored for speedy intervention. The DCS, though not solely responsible for the high levels of overcrowding in its centres, must spearhead interventions aimed at lowering the inmate population, as it is the Department that feels its impact most. In its BRR report the Committee recommended the submission of a report detailing the extent to which HCCs apply their powers for reducing overcrowding, and the numbers of offenders that have been released as a result thereof. This report, as well as the proposed policy/action plan for managing the remand system, is to be tabled before the Committee by 28 February 2011.