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NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE PRESENTATION 20 FEBRUARY 2008. Agenda. SIU 9:00 – 9:30 Overview by Acting NDPP 9:30 - 9:45
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NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE PRESENTATION 20 FEBRUARY 2008
Agenda • SIU 9:00 – 9:30 • Overview by Acting NDPP 9:30 - 9:45 • Report of the Acting CEO 9:45 - 9:55 • Accounting Report 9:55 - 10:05 • Presentation by Operational Units: * NPS 10:05 - 10:30 * AFU 10:30 - 10:40 * DSO 10:40 - 11:00 • TEA * NSSD: PCLU 11:30- 11:50 SCCU SOCA WPU • Conclusion: Acting NDPP 11:50- 12:00 • Questions 12:00- 13:00
Overview by Acting National Director MJ Mpshe SC
Introduction • Criminal Justice System (CJS): * Role of NPA * Working partnerships • NPA Stakeholder Conference • Macro Structure of the NPA
Governance Highlights and Successes • Strategy 2020 * Developing standards of excellence in all NPA operations * Annual Plans developed by all BU * Performance Contracts * EXCO review quarterly reports • Risk Management * Risk Management Framework
Governance:Challenges • Vacancies and Recruiting • High profile cases • Proposed organisational changes
Highlights of operational Units • National Prosecutions Service (NPS) * Maintaining high conviction rate * Community Courts * Backlog Project * Community Prosecutions Project
Highlights Operational Units (continue) • Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) * Exceeded target new seizures and cases completed * Exceeded monetary target seized assets * Noteworthy success rate judgments in contested issues
Highlights of Operational Units (cont) • Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) * Finalised 214 cases * Conviction rate 85% * Restraint assets R 1, 05 billion
Highlights of Operational Units (cont.) • Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU) * 100% conviction in first ever Nuclear Non-Proliferation case in SA * Missing Persons Project
Highlights of Operational Units (cont.) • Specialised Commercial Crime Unit (SCCU) * Maintained 95% conviction rate * 36% increase in cases finalised * Spear-headed PGI methodology
Highlights of Operational Units (cont.) • Sexual Offences and Community Affairs (SOCA) * Launched 365 National Action Plan on No Violence against Women and Children * Continued establishment Thuthuzela Care Centres * Steering Committee for Trafficking in Persons established.
Highlights of Operational Units (cont.) • Office for Witness Protection * Maintained long standing record no witness threatened, harmed on assassinated whilst on Programme * Acclaimed as one of top 5 witness protection agencies in the world
Attached separatepresentations: • Report of the Acting CEO • Accounting Report • Presentation by Operational Units: * NPS * AFU * DSO * PCLU *SCCU *SOCA