Question NW465 to the Minister of Police

Whitfield, Mr AG to ask the Minister of Police

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WRITTEN REPLY QUESTION 465 36/1/4/1(202000067) DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 20 MARCH 2020(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 10-2020) 465.Mr A G Whitfield (DA) to ask the Minister of Police: What (a) is the total number of police stations that have received a thorough inspection by the National Inspectorate since the 2014-15 financial year up to the latest date for which information is available and (b) are the relevant details of each inspection that was conducted? NW646E REPLY: The total number of police stations that have received a thorough inspection by the National Inspectorate, since the 2014/2015 financial year, up to the latest date for which information is available, is reflected in the table below. Financial Year Number of Inspections conducted Type of Inspections 2014/2015 1 020 Full inspections:556 Focused inspections:69 Follow-up inspections:395 2015/2016 1 308 Full inspections:714 Focused inspections:418 Follow-up inspections:176 2016/2017 270 high crime-weight police stations The details of the inspections, are reflected in paragraph(b). 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 The relevant details of each inspection that was conducted, are reflected below. Financial Year Details of Inspections 2014/2015 Attached as per Annexure A. 2015/2016 Attached as per Annexure B. 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 The Division: Inspectorate functioned as Management Intervention. Management Intervention inculcated a culture of uncompromising compliance and performance management and implemented a multi- year programme at 270 high crime-weight police stations that gave impetus to the stabilisation of internal functioning, which lays the foundation for improved service delivery, capacity development and impact on crime Financial Year Diagnostic assessments were conducted; basic non-compliance rectified and root cause resolved that compromised service delivery and impact on crime. For this purpose, an intervention execution plan was developed and implemented at each of the 270 police stations, in consultation with the station commanders and members. The output of the programme was evaluated at the 270 police stations, using a compliance assessment tool, containing 361 indicators. The average result of the evaluation indicated a compliance rating above 80% threshold, in each of the following functional areas:- System utilization and date integrity- Administration and support- Community satisfaction- Service delivery complaints against the police- Visible policing- Crime and Management information- Concept of operations, command and control- Detective service The result standards for mitigation action, which were issued during previous inspections, were provided to the 270 police stations, for self-diagnoses and self-correction, in achieving the desired outputs and outcomes.The list of the 270high crime – weight police stations, is attached as Annexure C Reply to question 465 recommended GENERL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICEKJ SITOLE (SOEG)Date: 2020/04/03Reply to question 465 approvedMINISTER OF POLICE GENEDRAL BH CELE, MPDate: 07/04/2020