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Police
Interim Acting National Commissioner introduction; petitions; Bloemfontein VIP Unit accommodation, with Minister
7 Jun 2017
The Interim Acting National Police Commissioner was introduced as a professional police officer who has shown himself to be exemplary and who had leadership skills beyond reproach. General Phiyega’s contract was coming to an end on 10 June 2017 and the process of appointing a National Police Commissioner would begin ...
Police
Crime Statistics methodology: SAPS, Stats SA & independent crime analysts briefings
31 May 2017
The Committee met to receive briefings by stakeholders including South African Police Service, Institute of Security Studies, Statistics South Africa and Dr Chris De Kock on crime statistics.
The South Africa Police Service (SAPS) said the crime statistics focused on all the crime reported at the 1 144 police stations, including ...
Police
Committee Reports on SAPS, IPID, CSP Budget
17 May 2017
The Committee considered three reports, namely,
International Relations
Western Sahara and South Africa relations: Public lecture, with Deputy Minister
15 Mar 2017
The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation hosted a public lecture around the role of South Africa and its role in mobilising the international community in pursuit of the independence of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Keynote speakers included the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, the ...
International Relations
International Criminal Court ruling; Foreign Service Bill: input by Department of Defence
8 Mar 2017
Both Ministers of Justice and of International Relations were absent from the meeting which irked the Committee as they needed to account for the International Criminal Court withdrawal without seeking Parliament’s approval and repeal of the Rome Statute Act. They said that a department official could not answer political questions. ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans on its Quarter 2 performance
8 Mar 2017
The Department of Military Veterans (DMV) presented a combined report on the performance of the Department in the second and third quarter 2016. Throughout the presentation on the second quarter report, challenges were outlined and the third quarter report highlighted areas where there had been some improvement, although the DMV ...
Police
SAPS Crime Statistics: April to December 2016, with Minister
3 Mar 2017
The South Africa Police Service reported on the crime statistics for the last nine months of 2016/17 and compared them to 2015/6. There were 960 000 serious crimes cases reported to SAPS over the nine-month period (that is, 3 550 crimes every day or 148 crimes per hour). The biggest ...
Police
Specialised Units: SAPS progress report; Politically-motivated killings in KwaZulu-Natal: SAPS briefing
1 Mar 2017
The Committee received a briefing by the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (Hawks) on the establishment of specialised units, namely, the National Bureau for Illegal Firearm and Priority Violent Crime (NBIFCPVC) and South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB). The NBIFCPVC would prioritise forensic linkages, stock control, transactional networks, police killings ...
The Minister of Police briefed the Committee on various matters, followed by a briefing by South African Police Services Management on some of the same issues that the Minister had covered around performance and Festive Season plans.
The Minister firstly explained (and SAPS later amplified a little and took questions ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans progress report on Management Performance
23 Nov 2016
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans briefed the Committee on the information it had requested on the DMV skills audit, its consequence management, its exact number of employees, and the results of the latest Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) assessment conducted by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation ...