of Police Oversight and Community Safety

Regarding the Department’s statutory oversight role over policing and its provincial programmes to combat gender-based violence (GBV):

1. What (a) specific support programmes, (b) civil society partnerships or (c) localised interventions are currently coordinated by her Department to strengthen the investigation of GBV;
2. (a) which specific police stations in the province have been identified where the volume of GBV reporting is disproportionately high but investigative outcomes and conviction rates remain poor and (b) what interventions have been recommended to the SAPS management for these stations;
3. what specific (a) oversight steps, (b) station audits or (c) monitoring interventions has her Department undertaken during the past 12 months to evaluate the performance of the SAPS in investigating GBV-related offences;
4. (a) what trends has her Department identified through its monitoring frameworks regarding the shifting prevalence and geographic concentration of GBV in the province and (b) which specific communities have been flagged as requiring urgent and targeted structural intervention;
5. what formal recommendations has she submitted to the national Minister of Police and to the SAPS National Commissioner to improve structurally the (a) resourcing and (b) effectiveness of GBV investigations in the province?