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Anti-Gang strategy: SAPS roll-out of units; NGO & community input, Minister present
12 Feb 2019
The Committee met with the Minister of Police, South African Police Service (SAPS) and various civil society organisations to receive an updated briefing on the rollout of the anti-gang strategy. SAPS presented a progress report on the anti-gang strategy and rollout of units. The presentation addressed progress with implementation, projects ...
Police
SAPS lifestyle audits/vetting progress; DPCI high profile cases; Anti-Gang Unit report; Festive Season Preparations
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the SA Police Service (SAPS) and Directorate for Priority Crimes Directorate (DPCI) to be updated on a number of matters before Parliament rose for the year. The Head of the DPCI took the Committee through updates on high-priority cases using a sample of 22 cases. The ...
Police
Firearms Control Amendment Bill: rejected
20 Nov 2018
Mr P Groenewald (FF+), as initiator of the Bill, read out the objects of the Bill and thereafter answered questions that Members had previously posed on the Bill. Some of the questions were around the retrospective application of the Bill and whether there was a lacuna in the law. Did ...
Police
SAPS Rural Safety Plan: SAPS, AgriSA, COSATU/POPCRU & AFASA input; with Minister
14 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the Police of Police, National Commissioner of Police, senior management of the SA Police Service (SAPS) and other relevant stakeholders to be briefed on SAPS’ Rural Safety Strategy. SAPS presented its Rural Safety Strategy to the Committee looking at the background to it, status of the ...
Police
Police stations: Public Works facilities management
13 Nov 2018
The South African Police Service (SAPS) described a litany of challenges it was experiencing in respect of services provided by the Department of Public Works (DPW). When the DPW indicated that they had not come to the meeting prepared to respond to the SAPS complaints, the debate became heated and ...
Police
SAPS on Contract Management; Irregular Expenditure; Consequence Management; SITA Contracts; Bid Committees
7 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the SA Police Service (SAPS) to be briefed on matters relating to contract management, status of the bid committees, irregular expenditure and to get a sense of the broader governance matters and plans in place which led to qualified findings in the past to avoid possible ...
Police
Firearms Control Amendment Bill (Private Member’s Bill): briefing
6 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by Hon P Groenewald on his Private Member’s Bill on firearms licensing currently.
Dr Groenewald said that his proposal was to address the current dilemma were 400 000 plus firearms licensed gun owners had found themselves to be illegally in possession of firearms after a constitutional court ...
Police
Integrated Justice System (IJS): SAPS, Treasury
31 Oct 2018
[PMG missed the first hour of the meeting and subsequently missed National Treasury’s presentation – see presentation attached].
A summary of the presentation showed that National Treasury briefed the Committee on the issues underlying the budget allocation and spending for the implementation of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) 7 Point ...
Police
High Crime Areas: SAPS strategy, Community Policing Forums, CSP research; with the Minister
30 Oct 2018
The five police stations in areas with the highest crime rates in the country came under the spotlight when the Committee was briefed by the South African Police Service, the heads of the local community policing forums (CPFs) and the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS).
The five police stations ...
Police
Crime Statistics 2017/18 analysis: Stats SA, Academic Civil Society, CSPS and SAPS
24 Oct 2018
The Committee met with the SA Police Service (SAPS), Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSPS), Statistics SA and civil society organisations to analyse the 2017/18 crime statistics.
The Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS) began by providing the Committee with an analysis of the 2017/18 crime stats. The presentation addressed murder ...