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Amendment to IPID Act to curtail police minister’s powers is in the works

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A bill amending the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Act to strengthen the independence of the appointment process of the police watchdog's executive director, is already being drafted.

South African Minister of Police, Bheki Cele briefs media about lockdown regulations, 11 June 2020. Picture GCIS

At that meeting, the committee expressed the need to amend the legislation. They have also received a legal opinion that it wasn’t within their power to extend the deadline for Cele, as they have done, and that the legislation is silent on what happens when the minister doesn’t comply. She said the act currently didn’t allow the committee to do interviews, or to interview any candidates other than those proposed by the minister.She said there appeared to be a perception in the public mind that the committee would do interviews like other committees do when making appointments.She said the committee couldn’t be told by the media that it didn’t have access to documents.

 

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