| Government's Programme of Action - 2004 | |
| Justice, Crime Prevention & Security Cluster | ||
| Actions | Departments | Timeframe | Progress - Updated 15 Feb 2005 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1.00 | REDUCING LEVELS OF CRIME | ||||
| 1.01 | Contact crimes reduced by 7-10% per annum, with a major role for Social Crime Prevention | SAPS, DSD, DCS, DOJ | 7-10% reduction per annum | A manual on good social crime prevention practices has been completed and will be used to assist provincial stakeholders in implementing social crime prevention programmes. | |
| 1.02 | Social Crime Prevention | SAPS, DSD, DCS, DOJ, Social and Economic Clusters | The social cluster has submitted a list of social crime prevention projects that it will be implementing. | ||
| 1.03 | Profiling of Contact Crime Areas and using profiles of 63 top areas to develop action plans in cooperation with various role players to address causes of crime by means of social crime prevention | SAPS, DSD, DPLG, Social and Economic Clusters | Dec-04 | The socio-graphic profiling of the 63 priority police station areas has been broadly finalised. Provincial and local authorities are facilitating project development plans for the 63 areas. | |
| 1.03.1 | Enriching information in cooperation with HSRC and Statistics SA | SAPS | Ongoing | Completed, but subject to regular updates. | |
| 1.03.2 | Planning Sessions May-June 2004 with relevant Provincial Government Departments and local authorities followed by Inter-Cluster planned meetings to finalise profiles and action plans | JCPS | Jun-04 | Implementation plans have been completed by 7 provinces. The cluster will pay follow-up visits to other provinces to facilitate the development of plans. | |
| 1.03.3 | Presentation of plans for approval to various Cabinet Committees, Cabinet, MinComs and President's Coordinating Council | JCPS | Ongoing | The cluster will be ready with the presentation of project plans to Cabinet, MinComs and President's Coordinating Council during 2005. | |
| 1.04 | Firearms, Drugs and Substance Abuse - attention to factors contributing to high levels of these crimes | SAPS, DSD, DOE, Social Cluster | Ongoing | A final draft of the National Drug Master Plan is scheduled for Feb-05. The amnesty for the possession of illegal firearms came into effect in Jan-05 and will end in Mar-05. | |
| 1.05 | Investigation and Prosecution - improving quality and turn around time | IJS, SAPS, DOJ, NPA | Detective learning programmes focusing on the taking of statements have been implemented. | ||
| 1.06 | Set up Special Joint Teams to target and focus on serious crime with an immediate objective of apprehending the top 200 criminals in the country, using all legal instruments to bring them to justice | SAPS, NIA, DSO, DOJ, FIC | Aug-04 | The following arrests were made: 67 out of 96 identified on organised crime; 40 out of 42 of commercial crime whilst for contact crimes 61 of the 62 identified, including people who were wanted for cash-in-transit and other roberries. | |
2.00 | ORGANISED CRIME SYNDICATES | ||||
| 2.01 | Co-ordinating role players and greater use of information from the Financial Intelligence Centre and National Communication Centre | NICOC, NIA, SAPS, DSO, FI | Ongoing , Aug-04 | Systems have been put in place with high levels of efficiency recorded. | |
| 2.02 | Southern Africa and Africa - better co-ordination and development of mutually beneficial activities, systems and processes | SAPS, NICOC, NIA ,DHA | Ongoing | As a result of bilaterals between South Africa and other countries, procedures at ports of entry were agreed to and special operations are now coordinated. | |
| 2.03 | High level priority crimes - special attention over next 5 years to high level priority crimes and syndicates involved | SAPS, DSO, NICOC, NIA, FIC | 2009 | Syndicate leaders and couriers have been arrested, thus neutralising several syndicates. | |
| 2.04 | Corruption - special attention as part of the organised crime priority | DSO, DCS, DOJ, DHA, SAPS | A counter corruption strategy has been finalised. A number of projects between cluster departments have led to an arrest and dismissal of corrupt Home Affairs Officials, among others. | ||
3.00 | IMPROVING EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM | ||||
| 3.01 | Review of the Criminal Justice System to be completed within next 18 months | Justice | Nov-05 | The terms of reference for the review have been finalised and will therefore serve before Cabinet early in 2005. | |
| 3.01.1 | Proposed that a Commission be established with broad terms of reference to conduct a review to further enhance the functioning of the CJS, building on progress made towards modernisation and integration | Justice | Refer 3.01 above | ||
| 3.02 | Reducing backlogs pending trial and improving conviction rates, with particular attention to recidivism | IJS, DCS, DOJ, NPA, SAPS | Ongoing | The NPA is conducting an audit of all outstanding cases on the regional and high court rolls in order to address the problem. Diversion of children in trouble with the law is being implemented as a way of partly dealing with the problem. | |
| 3.03 | Finalise the Victims Charter | DOJ, DCS, DSD | Jul-04 | The Service Charter for Victims as well as the Service Charter for minimum standards was approved by cabinet and officially launched in Nov-04. | |
| 3.04 | Implement the Victim Support Services Programme | DSD, DOJ, DCS, | End of 2004 | A steering committee consisting of various directorates in the justice department and the Sexual Offences Community Affairs unit have been formed to monitor the implementation of the charter. | |
| 3.05 | Intensify programme to set up specialised courts (commercial crimes and women an child abuse) | DOJ | Ongoing | Further sites for rolling out the Specialised Commercial Crimes Courts have been established in Bloemfontein and Germiston. The NPA is establishing Thuthuzela Care centres to link up with the Sexual Offences Courts. | |
| 3.06 | Intensify transformation of the entire judicial system | DOJ, all dept, SOEs | Ongoing | The Superior Courts Bill should be tabled in Parliament during the first session of 2005. Proposals regarding the re-demarcation of Magisterial Districts is being finalised | |
| 3.07 | Enhanced integration between the security, economic and social clusters | JCPS, SS and E&I Clusters | Ongoing | Proper mechanisms and focus areas for 2005 should be finalised by the end of Feb-05. Among others, these would relate to social crime prevention, approach regarding border control and security and the finalisation of the National Security Strategy | |
| 3.08 | Meeting of Ministerial Coordinating Cttee set up under Section 31 of the National Prosecuting Act to align responsibilities of the Directorate Special Operations with other intelligence and law enforcement agencies | DOJ,SAPS, NIA, DCS, DOD | Jun-04 | The Committee will submit detailed progress reports and cabinet memoranda on the effectiveness of the coordinating mechanisms between the DSO, SAPS and intelligence structures, and on other issues. | |
4.00 | UPHOLDING NATIONAL SECURITY | ||||
| 4.01 | National Security Strategy - attention to implementing a strategy and effective system of managing national security matters | NICOC, NIA, SAPS, DOD | Further workshops on the framework will be held with the business sector in early 2005. The strategy will be finalised in 2005 | ||
| 4.02 | Strategy to improve capacity of the intelligence community | NICOC, The Presidency, SA | Sept-04 | Measures directed at improving the capacity of the intelligence structures are being implemented. | |
| 4.03 | Border Control and Security - building on progress made by shifting borderline control to SAPS and reviewing immigration policies in respect of immediate neighbours in line with border control and security strategy | SAPS, DHA, DOD, NIA, NICOC | Sept-04 | The first phase commenced in Sep-04 and will be further rolled-out to other borders during the 2004/2005 financial year. | |
| 4.03.01 | Aligning border control and security strategy with strategies to promote trade, tourism and cooperation between South Africa and other countries | DHA, SAPS, DOD, NIA, NICOC, dti, DEAT | Nov '04 | The Immigration Regulations to complement the Amendment Act will be published for comment shortly. | |
| 4.03.02 | Addressing disparities at ports of entry between departments including infrastructure, personnel, IT and technology - finalizing upgrading 53 land ports of entry and building new border posts inter alia for the new Transfrontier Conservation Areas | DHA, SAPS, DOD, NIA, NICOC | Nov-05 | The framework for strategy on border control were presented to the cabinet Lekgotla. | |
| 4.03.03 | Action to deal with corruption at ports of entry involving especially officials at lower end of salary levels | DHA, SAPS | Ongoing | DHA have established a Corruption and Fraud Unit which has developed a corruption /fraud prevention plan currently being circulated to DHA officials. | |
| 4.03.04 | Finding a balance between facilitation of cross-border movement of SADC citizens and security needs, assisted by introduction of appropriate technology | DHA, SAPS, SARS | Ongoing | The Department of Home Affairs is implementing a one-stop border post with Mozambique as a model to facilitate cross-border travel. New technology is also introduced in this regard. | |
| 4.03.05 | Addressing fragmented enforcement of legislation by departments, with development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) | SAPS, DHA, SARS | Ongoing | Standard Operating Procedures have been completed and are being implemented in a coordinated manner | |
| 4.03.06 | Skills development to address poor service delivery, with specialised interdepartmental programmes. Establishment of an Inter-Departmental Training Institution will be investigated | "Border" departments, SAMDI | Regional and specialised training initiatives for air, sea and land borders have been implemented. | ||
| 4.03.07 | Upgrading of outdated border control technology | "Border" departments, SAMDI | The framework on border control and security strategy was presented to Cabinet Lekgotla. | ||
| 4.03.08 | Strengthening security of the country's and borderline, through implementation during 2004-2009 of an exit and entry strategy already finalised by an SAPS/SANDF task team | SAPS, DOD, | Phase one of the deployment programme has been completed. The SAPS is currently working on the second phase of the programme. | ||
| 4.03.09 | Sea Ports of Entry - security to be enhanced by implementation of an International Ship and Port Facility Security Code; enhance law enforcement at smaller harbours and attention by SAPS and SANDF to white water and blue water security strategies | SAPS, DOD, DHA, National Ports Authority, NIA | Measures implemented to enhance security include an International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, law enforcement as well as white and blue water strategy. | ||
| 4.03.10 | Air Ports of Entry - with attention to non-international airports and the affordability of options for upgrading radar systems will be investigated | SAPS, DOD, DHA, ACSA, NIA | Plans are being developed and evaluation of capacity is being undertaken in this regard. | ||
| 4.03.11 | Rail Ports of Entry - a short-term intervention has been implemented to strengthen security at crossings with limited control pending longer term development of infrastructure and placing of personnel | SAPS, DHA, Transport, SARS | The Joint Implementation Task Team met in Jan-05 to roll out the implementation plan. Limpopo Province has already been visited and is busy with implementation. | ||
| 4.03.12 | An Integrated Implementation Plan will be presented to Cabinet outlining the action steps, budgets and time frames to neutralize all threats and enhance border control and security | SAPS, DOD, DHA, NIA, NICOC | A framework, including practical programmes and timelines, for a Border Control and Security Strategy was presented to the Jan-05 Cabinet Lekgotla. | ||
| 4.04 | Readiness of SANDF - continuing priority including maintaining appropriate age-balance | DOD, SAPS | The approved DOD's Joint Force Employment Strategy is being implemented. | ||
| 4.05 | Disaster management - attention to capacity and readiness of systems with focus on security-related national disasters, involving cooperation on non-security related disasters with other clusters and countries in the region | SAPS | Disaster management exercise is continung and will be completed in 2005. | ||
| 4.06 | Reassess the effectiveness of the Foreign Military Assistance Act | DOD, DOJ, NIA, NPA, | A cabinet memorandum and an Amendment Bill will be presented to cabinet in early 2005. | ||
| 4.07 | Terrorism - continuing attention | NICOC, NIA, SAPS | Regular reporting and monitoring continues. | ||
| 4.08 | Security for Local Government Elections | SAPS, NIA, SANDF | The Operational Instruction has been discussed with provinces. | ||
5.00 | ONGOING PRIORITIES | ||||
| 5.01 | SAPS capacity - increasing numbers to 152,000 in 2005/6 | SAPS | Apr-06 | Budget to increase capacity of SAPS has been approved and is being implemented. | |
| 5.02 | Integrated Justice Programme - various programmes | DOJ; IJS | The cluster is sustaining the IJS Court Centre Projects. A plan to roll out integrated case flow management centres is being developed. | ||
| 5.03 | Sexual Offences | DJCD,NPA, , SAPS | The Sexual Offences Act is being implemented. | ||
| 5.04 | Protection and Security Services Division - putting this division into operation and phasing out the Commando units and replacing it with a revised SAPS reservist system | SAPS, DOD | The pilot project on Railway Police is being conducted in Western Cape. 400 entry-level constables have been trained for the project. | ||
| 5.05 | Establish at least two Community Courts in each province, modeled on the Hatfield Community Court in Tshwane, whose first month of operation saw 200 cases finalised with a 100% conviction rate, in the current financial year | Apr-05 | Good progress is reported on the three community courts which were officially launched November 2004 in Cape Town. In addition to these three, nine community courts have been initiated as pilot projects in EC; FS, Limpopo; NC; KZN and GP. | ||
6.00 | BIG EVENTS | ||||
| 6.01 | Security for World Cup Soccer Tournament 2010 | SAPS, DHA, NICOC, NIA, DOD, NT | A framework for security evaluation of stadiums has been completed and a framework to secure the event approved by FIFA. | ||
| Last updated: 2005 March 7 | |||||