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Metro Police Performance & SAPS relationship with Metro Police
13 Feb 2019
The Committee met with South African Police Service (SAPS) to brief the Committee on its relationship/structure with the Metro Police Service (MPS). The SAPS delegation was led by the National Commissioner and all metro chiefs were in attendance. The six MPS, together with the MPS of the City of Mangaung, ...
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High Level Panel Report; Firearms Control Amendment Bill: Committee Report
21 Nov 2018
The Committee postponed consideration of its legacy report, and adopted the Report of the Portfolio Committee on Police on the 2017-18 Annual Report of the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA), Report by the Portfolio Committee on Police on the recommendations of the High-level panel, Report of the Portfolio Committee ...
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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Transkei/Ciskei police re-enlistment petition
23 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss a petition calling for the re-enlistment of former members of the Ciskei and Transkei police. They were first briefed by the representative of the former members, who said they were dissatisfied with the South African Police Service (SAPS) decision not to approve their re-employment ...
Police
SAPS, IPID, Civilian Secretariat for Police Budgetary Review and Recommendations Reports
17 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider and adopt the 2017/18 Budget Review and Recommendation Reports (BRRR) of three entities in the police portfolio namely, the South African Police Service (SAPS), Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS) and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), ...
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IPID High Profile cases & Quarter 1 performance
12 Sep 2018
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Police on its Quarter One Financial and Non-Financial Performance for the 2018/19 financial year, along with an update of the investigation of high profile cases. The presentation addressed budget and expenditure with a summary of the first quarter expenditure, ...
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SAPS Crime Statistics 2017/18; with Minister
11 Sep 2018
The Committee met for a briefing on the 2017/18 crime statistics. The Minister of Police and the National Commissioner of Police were in attendance.
The Minister informed the Committee that the crime statistics were nothing to write home about but admitted that the SAPS had dropped the ball. The emphasis ...
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Civilian Secretariat for Police Quarter 1 performance; DPCI Judge on current complaints, investigations, challenges
5 Sep 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Police met to receive the Quarter One Report of the Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSP) for the 2018/19 financial year and to receive a briefing from the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) Judge.
The CSP first quarter report for the current financial year covered the ...