Build a caring correctional system that truly belongs to all

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BUILDING CAPACITY OF GOVERNMENT FOR DELIVERY ON
CRIME PREVENTION, JUSTICE AND SECURITY
Build a caring correctional system that truly
belongs to all
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Conference Theme

• Building implementation capacity for sustainable
  growth and development Implications for the
  Public Service,
• sustainable growth development - prerequisites
  for crime free, secure, and just society,
• building developmental state requires putting in
  place new transformed capacity- particular
  challenge within Security sector of government.

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COMPOSITION OF JCPS

• SAPS, DOJCD, DCS, DHA, DOD, NPA, DSO, DPLG, DSD,
  NIA, NICOC,
• Some departments are referred to directly in the
  presentation, others such as DOD may not be
  referred to in detail in part as their
  functions overlap with responsibilities IRPS and
  their functions in JCPS are secondary support
  functions
• Roles of most individual cluster depts are well
  outlined and integrated in cluster process

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Constitutional Principles

• Our Constitution states principles that govern
  national security in the Republic
• (a) National security must reflect the resolve
  of South Africans, as individuals and as a
  nation, to live as equals, to live in peace and
  harmony, to be free from fear and want and to
  seek a better life.
• (b) The resolve to live in peace and harmony
  precludes any South African citizen from
  participating in armed conflict, nationally or
  internationally, except as provided for in terms
  of the Constitution or national legislation.
• (c) National security must be pursued in
  compliance with the law, including international
  law.
• (d) National security is subject to the
  authority of Parliament and the national
  executive.

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Sustainable Development

• Constitutional principles inform approach to
  security that places human security centrally in
  concept of national security
• Approach that rings true with Rio Declaration -
  World Conference on Environmental Development
  1992 Human beings are at centre of concerns for
  sustainable development. They are entitled to
  healthy productive life in harmony with
  nature.
• Johannesburg Declaration at WSSD in 2002 -
  commitment of world leaders to build humane,
  equitable caring global society cognizant of
  need for human dignity for all.
• Therein lie seeds of real crime prevention,
  justice and security.

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Capacity To Deliver On Constitutional Imperative

• Capacity to deliver on national security is same
  as capacity of all government departments to
  deliver what public expects are their basic
  inalienable rights.
• Delivery on human security - essence of
  responsibility of all government departments - if
  unable to do this, can lead to situations in
  which government service delivery weaknesses
  become sites of security tension.
• Public safety involves effectiveness of criminal
  justice system ability of departments to
  provide infrastructure that people require to
  feel safe and secure. Moreover, public safety
  also relates to the absence of security risks and
  threats within the communities.
• Effective border security exclude foreigners
  with violent criminal intent, ensure regulation
  of those who need to leave their countries in
  search of human security elsewhere

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Capacity To Deliver On Constitutional Imperative

• National security not responsibility of security
  organs of state alone - all government
  departments have to utilise their institutional
  capacity to create situation of national security
  security from external threats absence of
  internal or domestic threats.
• Security organs of state monitor security
  environment to advise President Cabinet
  manage situation when security risks threats
  have manifest.
• Early warning should enable departments to
  address the causes of insecurity render
  extraordinary interventions of security
  establishment unnecessary or restricted.
• Sufficient effective counter-intelligence
  capacity to secure departments - hostile
  intelligence communities, fraud corruption,
  sabotage developmental state commitment to
  delivery to the people

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Challenge Of Transforming Depts For Delivery To
The People

• State of Nation Address, 2004, President
• Call to all South Africans to Arise and Act
  Vuk uzenzele!
• Pledge that government will strive to give real
  meaning to strategic challenge facing Public
  Service Batho Pele!
• What do these calls mean for security
  departments? - fundamental shift in which we
  relate to public

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Challenge Of Transforming Depts For Delivery To
The People

• In Correctional Services - correction,
  development rehabilitation require partnerships
  with other departments, community based service
  providers, leaders members of community,
  families of offenders offenders themselves.
• Develop institutional capacity to achieve this
  Members have to learn to communicate about their
  work responsibilities to community, support
  families in restoration of appropriate family
  social relationships for offender.
• Involves
• Retraining our members
• providing forums for interaction between DCS
  community families
• new method form of communication of work
  responsibilities of DCS to public.

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Challenge Of Transforming Depts For Delivery To
The People Cont..

• Ensure transparency of security departments st
  people can access our services understand
  criminal justice processes rights in relation
  to system track people through criminal justice
  processes.
• Alignment of transformation processes JCPS depts
  critical - this period is critical to deliver
  required degree of institutional coherence within
  the security sector.
• Transforming apartheid criminal justice
  infrastructure to one appropriate for democracy
  involves reviewing
• strategic direction, structures and human capital
  strategies
• policies procedures, alignment of policy and
  procedure across departments,
• delivery objectives performance indicators of
  Depts for synergy across these institutions.

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Challenge Of Transforming Depts For Delivery To
The People Cont..

• Delayed criminal justice review critical
• SAPS Transformation of community policing into
  commumity safety structures
• DCS strategic direction change in White Paper on
  Corrections - Centres of Excellence project
• NPA Serurubele project - invited partners to join
  transformation debates processes to ensure
  desired synergy with IJS.
• Cabinet - transformation of judiciary - critical
  priority - must protect independence of judiciary
  in decisions made in court, but judiciary is
  critical part of cjs administration must
  reflect community for public to have faith cjs
• Delay in transformation of DHA under previous
  leadership impacted negatively on security sector

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Challenge Of Transforming Depts For Delivery To
The People Cont

• Building our institutional capacity involves
• Review of DOD White Paper and Doctrine
• resourcing departments in integrated manner.
• cooperation coordination at national level
  cascaded to the capacity of the security sector
  at provincial and local level.
• local level of cooperation coordination is
  critical for delivery on justice, crime
  prevention security. The challenge of
  strengthening local government capacity is not
  only critical for delivery on basic services, but
  indeed for peace and security an obligation
  that government has towards all its citizens.
• Resourcing Intelligence community in general
• Consideration for building Civilian Intelligence

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2005 Government Programme of Action

• Govt PoA commits the JCPS to integrated delivery
  on six key areas
• Reducing Levels of Crime, and in particular
  contact crime
• Organised Crime Syndicates, including those
  involved in fraud and corruption within the
  criminal justice system
• Improving Effectiveness of the Criminal Justice
  System
• Upholding National Security, including
  improvement of border security, and ensuring
  delivery on human security issues
• Ongoing Transformation Priorities within the
  criminal justice departments
• Big Event Security

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Functions Of Cluster

• Unpack and re-examine functions of cluster - to
  ensure integrated delivery on justice, crime
  prevention security.
• What does each of these terms mean in democratic
  South Africa? What does it mean for security
  departments? What does it mean for social
  economic sector departments? What does it mean
  for local government?
• Delivery on justice, crime prevention and
  security is an obligation on all government
  departments, while coordination of generation
  of strategic direction lies with JCPS
  departments, delivery requires work of all
  departments, across three tiers of government.

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Integrated Delivery

• requires integrated planning, coordinated
  resourcing, cooperation in delivery.
• necessitates joint operational coordination
  cascading from national level to local level.
• Coordination of JCPS work through
• Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure
  (JOINTS) - national, provincial area levels
• JCPS Development Committee - proposals to cascade
  down to provincial local levels
• Border Control Operational Coordinating Committee
  (BCOCC) - ensures coordination at ports of entry
• National Intelligence Coordination Committee
  (NICOC) substructures -coordination in
  intelligence community since1994

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Integrated Delivery

• Requires alignment of delivery eg challenges
  facing DCS re corrections is societal
  responsibility into practice- local government
  has critical role in delivery on social
  reintegration, parole monitoring, prevention of
  repeat offending, but as purely national
  competency, with only 241 correctional facilities
  across the country.
• Requires exploration of both coordination cross
  each sphere of govt between spheres of govt.
• Biggest challenge is to explore concepts of
  justice, security crime prevention at local
  government level where apart from metropolitan
  councils, is little capacity to address crime
  public safety issues in dedicated manner.

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Promotion of Justice

• Requires significant shift from understanding of
  justice in apartheid South Africa
• requires effective efficient justice system
  justice seen to be done, justice delayed is
  justice undermined, innocence until proven guilty
  
• Requires protection of interests of victims -
  Victim Charter. Victims often perceive interests
  to best be protected through retributive
  punishment, not in rehabilitation of offenders
  social reintegration as responsible citizens.
• Entails respect for rights of accused people
  allegations being investigated before arrests,
  right to speedy fair trial, accused peoples
  rights limited only as justifiable necessary
  for
• Justice as contribution to public safety and to
  crime prevention.
• Delivers appropriate sentences to enhance
  rehabilitation

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Crime Prevention

• Preventing crime involves effective visible
  policing, effective crime investigation
  combating addressing socio-economic causes of
  crime social crime prevention approach.
• Entails building capacity not only of police but
  focusing of govt resources on communities where
  crime originates, social behaviour linked to
  criminal behaviour lack of ethics morals.
• goals of reducing levels of contact crimes not
  only responsibility of SAPS - also involves
  addressing substance abuse, zero tolerance
  towards violence, creation of appropriate
  recreation facilities not connected to alcohol
  outlets, creation of appropriate culture of
  personal interaction.

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Crime Prevention

• Developmental projects in priority policing
  areas. - contact crimes committed in social
  sphere - Challenge to create social sphere with
  culture that is violence free.
• Human Settlement Strategy immediate implications
  for crime prevention
• Job creation is critical component of crime
  prevention -has two significant dimensions
• poverty leads to crimes of need
• frustrations of unemployment render people
  vulnerable to recruitment by organised crime.
• Crime prevention not achievable without effective
  correction, rehabilitation and breaking cycle of
  crime.
• International experience - one of most effective
  deterrents is knowledge that effective crime
  combating justice system - success not on
  number of arrests, but number of cases
  appropriately investigated successfully
  prosecuted

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Crime Prevention

• Crime prevention must protect the most vulnerable
  -extent of gender based violent crime is of
  serious concern.
• 16 Days Against Violence Against women and
  Children - highlight challenges of Conference
  theme
• Campaign run annually, heightened awareness of
  gender violence, asserted zero tolerance towards
  it, mobilised funds for some of the NGOs involved
  in support work to victims of gender based
  violence.
• Have not established capacity to deliver
  throughout year.
• Slogan Act Against Abuse not yet translated into
  concrete delivery targets for government
• design of our towns cities, public transport
  system as safe, woman and child friendly
• government responsibility re safe houses for
  women children
• interventions with all male offenders on human
  rights of women children
• Hope that Cluster Reps in 16 Days Coord Committee
  will enable us to correct this shortcoming.

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EXPECTATIONS ON THIS COMMISSION

• Capacity needs re skills other resources
• Identify Challenges of implementation in the
  priority areas propose solutions
• Recommend appropriate institutional arrangements
  and funding
• Propose solutions on how to improve functioning
  of the cluster in general

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Conclusion

• Themes of previous SMS Conferences
• Moving the Public Service from Policy to
  Implementation,
• Building an integrated Public Service
• Building a developmental state Bridging the gap
  between two economies - A public service
  response.
• Remain unfulfilled objectives that underlie
  ability to build implementation capacity for
  sustainable growth development prerequisite for
  achievement of peace, security justice in South
  Africa.

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Conclusion Cont

• Objectives of this years conference is to
• Bring senior managers to common understanding of
  what capacity is needed to implement governments
  programme of action, in this case JCPS programme
  of action
• Continuously support build capacity of senior
  managers through information learning sessions
  in order to improve service delivery
• Accelerate leadership management development in
  order to increase accountability, implementation
  of programmes regulatory issues
• Ensure that senior managers in Public Service, as
  driving force of translating Government policy
  into implementable programmes, have complete
  understanding of direction Government is taking
  their role in this regard.

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Thank you Together we can
Build the social compact for crime prevention and
correction