The IPID Amendment Bill seeks to ensure the Directorate is independent and impartial.
Should the Independent Police Investigative Directorate become a Chapter 9 institution? That’s the question that was raised during the deliberations aboutin Parliament on Wednesday. Some civil society organisations shared their opinions on the changes that they propose should be made in the Bill. Various groups appeared before Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police, outlining what they believe are pros and cons in the Bill.
One of the amendments relate to the appointment of the IPID Executive Director. This is a concern as bodies believe the Police Minister still has too much power over the appointment of the head of this entity. “The perceived and or real interference in the IPID by the SAPS or any politician is of great concern and was a matter that the constitutional court expressed itself on in the judgement of the court in the matter of Mcbride vs Minister of Police,” says UCT Centre of Criminology Law Faculty’s Dr Irvine Kinnes,
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