POPIA Privacy Notice Department of Community Safety 2021

5. PROGRAMME 1: ADMINISTRATION

The purpose is to provide strategic direction and support, administrative, financial, and executive services to the Department and related entities. The objective of the Programme is to efficiently support the Offices of the Ministry, Head of Department, Western Cape Police Ombudsman (WCPO) and the Western Cape Liquor Authority (WCLA) in their functions of providing strategic leadership and ensuring effective governance inclusive of financial management.

5.1 Sub-programme: Office of the Ministry

Function:

To provide administrative and support services to the Provincial Minister.

5.2 Sub-programme: Office of the Head of Department

Function:

To provide administrative and support services to the office of the Head of the Department.

5.3 Sub-programme: Financial Management

Function:

To ensure departmental financial compliance through the provision of financial management and advisory services; and

5.4 The Sub-programme: Corporate Services

Function:

To enhance departmental effectiveness through facilitating strategic planning management of programme performance, communications and administrative support.

6. PROGRAMME 2: PROVINCIAL SECRETARIAT FOR POLICE SERVICE

Function:

To exercise oversight over the conduct, effectiveness, and efficacy of law enforcement agencies in the Province.

​6.1 Sub-programme: Programme Support

Function:

To assist Sub-programmes with policy development, manage the budgetary process and implement project management in the Programme.

6.2 Sub-programme: Policy and Research

Function:

To conduct relevant research to inform stakeholders, influence community safety resource allocation to the Province, and to contribute towards the development of relevant policies.

6.3 Sub-programme: Monitoring and Evaluation

Function:

To conduct effective compliance monitoring and evaluation of policing in the Province.

6.4 Sub-programme: Safety Promotion

Function:

To promote safety within communities by raising awareness and building capacity to be responsive to the safety concerns and needs of that community.

6.5 Sub-programme 2.5: Community Police Relations

Function:

To promote good relations between the police and the community by facilitating the capacitation and functioning of safety partners.

7.PROGRAMME 3: PROVINCIAL POLICING FUNCTIONS

Function:

To give effect to the Constitutional Mandate allocated to provinces as it relates to the promotion of good relations between communities and the police through its whole-of-society approach and to ensure that all service delivery complaints about policing in the province is dealt with independently and effectively.

7.1 Sub-programme: Safety Partnerships

Function:

To increase safety by means of sustainable partnerships with community-based organisations in the field of safety.

7.2 Sub-programme: Western Cape Police Ombudsman (WCPO)

Function:

To independently investigate and seek to resolve complaints by community members against poor police service delivery in an impartial manner.

8. PROGRAMME 4: SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT

Function:

To institute a ‘whole of government’ approach towards building more resilient institutions, and empower communities to promote greater safety.

8.1 Sub-programme: Programme Support

Function:

To facilitate institutional resilience by providing strategic leadership around the institutionalisation of the Security Risk Management Strategy and to provide an accreditation process of Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) structures in the Western Cape Province.

8.2 Sub-programme: Provincial Security Provisioning

Function:

To enhance safety and security administration and provisioning within the WCG.

8.3 Sub-programme: Security Advisory Services

Function:

To enhance safety and security capacity across the WCG institutions.

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