Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Annual Report 2013/14 briefing

Meeting report

 

 

 

 

Draft Minutes of the Portfolio Committee on Police

 

Date                :     22 October 2014 

Time               :     09:00

Venue             :      Park - Inn by Radisson

Agenda           :      Consideration of the Annual Report of the Independent Police Investigative

                               Directorate   for 2013/14.

 

Attendance by Committee Members

 

Status	Name of Member	Political Party
Present	Beukman, Mr F  (Chairperson) Molebatsi, Ms MA Mmola, Ms MP Maake, Mr JJ Mabija, Ms L	African National Congress (ANC)
	Kohler Barnard, Ms D Mbhele, Mr Z	Democratic Alliance (DA)
	Twala, Mr DL	Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
	Groenewald, Mr PJ	Freedom Front Plus (FF+)
	Tshishoga, Mr MM	AGANG
Apologies	Mncwango, Mr MA Mmola, Ms MP	Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) African National Congress (ANC)

 

* (the asterisk indicates that the member is an alternate)

 

Parliamentary Officials

 

Parliamentary Officials	Designation
Ms B Mbengo	Committee Secretary
Mr I Kinnes	Committee Content Adviser
Mr K Lobi	Committee Assistant
Ms N  Van Zyl- Gouws	Committee Researcher
Mr T Mbandlanyana	Committee Researcher

 

 

Independent Police Investigative Directorate	Designation
Mr RJ McBride	Executive Director of IPID
Mr PM Setshedi	Director: Finance
Mr MZ Dlamini	National Spokesperson
Mr M Sesoko	Chief Director: Investigative information Management
Mrs NC Netsianda	Chief Director
Mrs MC Lobe	Parliamentary Liaison Officer
Mrs NA Mphango	Director: Executive Support

 

Opening and welcome

 

The Chairperson opened the meeting and welcomed all present. He gave a background overview of the purpose of Budgetary Review and Recommendation reports as stipulated in the Money Bills Procedure and Related Matters Act of 2009.  

 

2. Presentation by the Researcher

The presentation made by the Researcher on the Annual Report Analysis of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) for 2013/14. She reported to the Committee that the Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) measures four areas of management performance namely strategic management, Governance & accountability, Human Resources management and Financial Management.

 

 

2.1 Presentation by Department

The presentation focused on the following areas: Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPTA), spending patterns, Auditor - General report, Staffing, targets and programme performance of Administration, Investigation and Information Management and Legal Services.  She indicated that the overall performance has increased in 2013/14 comparing to the previous financial year of 2012/13.

 

The Executive Director of the IPID gave a background overview of the presentation. The presentation contained information on the service delivery environment, IPID workload over 2013/14, context of underspending, convictions and court roll, departmental expenditure and assurances provided.

 

The Chief Financial Officer of the IPID presented the overview of financial statements, appropriation statement, expenditure per programme: Programme 1: Administration, Programme 2: Investigation and Information Management and Programme 3: Legal Service, measure to improve expenditure trends, statement of financial performance, other key disclosure areas, events after reporting date, key Auditor - General observations,  and summary of  financial performance.

 

The Chief Director presented 2013/14 Annual Report on Programme: 1 Administration. She reported to the Committee that out of 12 key performance indicators (KPIs), 7 performance targets were achieved and another 5 was not achieved.  She explained the reasons why the performance indicators were not achieved and further highlighted those indicators: financial and strategic reports submitted, women representation at SMS level, disability representation, vacancy rate and policy review.

 

The Chief Director’s presentation of 2013/14 Annual Report on Programme2: Investigation and Information Management contained information on progress performance, statistical information on the intake yearly changes, intake per classification, active workload per province, workload vs completed cases, completed cases per classification, criminal recommendations, disciplinary recommendations, criminal convictions, disciplinary convictions and Auditor-General report.

 

The Chief Director’s presentation of 2013/14 Annual Report on Programme 3: Legal Services focused on progress performance of the programme.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Resolutions

 

The Committee requested the following additional information from the IPID:

 

•           A copy of service delivery improvement plan.

•           To improve the gender equity within its Senior Management Structure.

•           To fast – track the ICT Governance Plan;

•           The Committee agreed to invite the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Civilian Secretariat for Police to discuss the challenges experienced in the monitoring of the implementation of recommendations of the disciplinary cases on 19 November 2014.

 

4. Closing remarks by the Chairperson

 

The Chairperson thanked the Department for their presentation and the members for their cooperation. 

 

 

The Committee adjourned at 13:00.

 

 

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Mr Beukman, MP                   Date

Chairperson: Portfolio Committee on Police