Justice, Crime Prevention and Safety Commission

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Justice, Crime Prevention and Safety Commission

• 5 September 2005

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• Presentation by Com Mti
• Role players in the JCPS
• Constitutional principles that guides work
• Sustainable development
• Rio Declaration people at centre of sustainable
  development
• WSSD Johannesburg Declaration 2002 human,
  equitable and caring global society
• Capacity to delivery on Constitutional imperative
• National security
• Human security
• Public safety
• Border security

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• National security
• Monitor security environment
• Early warning
• Challenge of transforming Depts for delivery to
  the people
• State of nation address by Pres 2004
• Arise and Act
• DCS transformation
• Partnership
• Institutional capacity required
• Retraining
• Interaction forums
• Communication of work and responsibilities

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• Transparency must be ensured
• Access
• Understanding of system
• Track people thru process
• Alignment of JCPS transformation processes
• Transforming CJS involves several elements
• Delayed CJS review critical
• SAPS community safety structures
• DCS Centres of Excellence
• NPA Serurubele
• Cabinet transformation of judiciary
• DHA transformation delay negative impact
• DOD review

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• Key elements
• Integrated resourcing
• Localised cooperation and coordination
• 2005 GPoA
• Reduce levels of crime
• Org Crime
• Effectiveness
• National security
• Transformation priorities
• Big event security (e.g. 2010)

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• Functions of cluster
• Integrated delivery of justice, crime prevention
  and security
• What does this mean?
• Integrated delivery
• Integrated planning, coordinated resourcing and
  cooperation in delivery
• Joint operational coordination and cascading
• JCPS coordination
• JOINTS
• JCPS development committee
• Border control operational coordinating committee
  (BCOCC)
• NICOC

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• Alignment of delivery required
• Coordination across spheres of govt
• Explore concepts of justice, security and crime
  prevention at local govt level
• Promotion of justice
• Significant shift from apartheid understanding of
  justice
• Effective and efficient justice system
• Protection of interests of victims
• Respect for rights of accused
• Justices contribution to safety and crime
  prevention
• Appropriate sentences and rehabilitation

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• Crime prevention
• Visible policing, crime investigation, crime
  combating, socio-economic causes social crime
  prevention approach
• Build capacity especially re govt resources on
  communities, social behaviour, ethics and morals
• Reducing levels of contact crime not only SAPS
  responsibility also substance abuse, recreation
  facilities, zero tolerance for violence, etc
• Development projects in priority policing areas
• Human settlement strategy
• Job creation
• Poverty and crimes of need
• Frustration breed market for recruitment by org
  crime syndicates
• Prevention requires effective correction,
  rehabilitation, break cycle of crime
• Most effective deterrent knowledge of effective
  crime combating and justice system not nr of
  arrests, but nr of cases investigated and
  successfully prosecuted

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• Crime prevention must protect the most vulnerable
• Women and children, related campaigns
• Not capacity to deliver throughout the year
• Expectations on this commission
• Capacity needs skills and other resources
• Challenges of implementation
• Propose solutions
• Recommend institutional arrangements and funding
• Solutions to improve functioning of the cluster

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• Bottom line mind shift is needed re challenges
  facing us and understanding where SA is going
• We all serve the people of SA as civil servants

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Commission report-back (1a)

• Capacity needs
• Mindset shift is needed Constitutional and
  developmental imperatives versus old structures
  and approaches
• Cluster approach to training programmes to ensure
  synergy across departments
• Inter-sphere cooperation at local level and
  IDPs, training programme for councilors on
  cluster, environmental design, etc is needed lead
  by DPLG and others
• Innovative approach to structure
• Open up existing structures for broader
  participation and ownership of whole cluster
• Communities should own it
• Must be shared resources for cluster

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Commission report-back (1b)

• Capacity needs
• Skills capacity of SMS need to be upgraded
• Speedy finalisation of call by President to DGs
  re capacity to deliver

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Commission report-back (2)

• Challenges
• Taking transformation initiatives of cluster down
  to community
• Integrated approach and coordination in cluster
• Readiness of local govt to implement CSFs
• Need to be careful of implementing before
  capacity is in place
• Implementation of CPF methodologies at local
  level not funded mandate
• Prioritising and alignment within cluster
• Do not have adequate capacity within cluster to
  respond to challenges in the country

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Commission report-back (3)

• Recommendations
• Cascade JCPS cluster down to provincial level
• Play role in strategic planning sessions of
  Lekgotla and other clusters
• Concrete implementation plans for institutions
  that have desired outputs
• ProvJoints to cover all depts as with NatJoints
• Speed up disbanding of commandos
• Speed up recruitment of community as reservists
• Share information across cluster and other govt
  spheres
• National driver to respond to CSFs
• Speed up legislation re CSFs

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Commission report-back (4)

• Solutions
• Need an engine room for cluster to develop
  programmes/projects (NCPS)
• Monitor and evaluate programmes
• Need standardisation and similarity of structures
  across provinces

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Discussion - general

• Question of decentralisation of work of cluster
  to local level
• Need to deliberate on how to ensure this
• Need to define meaning for people at local level
• Open up CPFs to work in focus area of cluster
  even involve business and their resources
• Borders need to fortify borders (drugs, goods
  and people smugglers). Who looks after borders
  currently?
• Tension between delivering services per
  Constitutional mandate and continuing to delivery
  services through past structures. Does structure
  speak to this mandate?
• Community safety forums not SAPS but including
  all in cluster also looking at reintegration,
  etc CPFs just for crime prevention
• Service delivery we tend to think in boxes.
  Need to do integrated thinking