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sentences for illegal possession and other offences. In November 1999, the Firearms Control Bill was published for public information. • In September 1999, bilateral extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties were signed between South Africa and the US in Washington that would expand co-operation between the two countries in dealing with crime and narcotics. Under the treaties, the two countries agreed to extradite persons charged with or convicted of an extraditable offence. A condition is that it should be punishable under the laws of both states by a jail sentence of at least one year. • The National Commissioner’s Annual Police Plan was submitted to Cabinet. The policing operational priorities for 1999/00 were to - - curb violent crimes committed with firearms by increasing the clearance rate on firearms and improving firearms and ammunition control; - decrease the number of criminal organizations by improving intelligence and improving the measures aimed at curbing their activities; 35 - improve the quality of service to women and children as victims of crime by enforcing the Domestic Violence Act, 1998 and improving multidisciplinary co-operation to combat crimes against women and children; - decrease corruption within the SAPS by increasing detection and limiting opportunities; - increase targeted crime prevention through increased visible policing, developing sector policing, gathering proactive crime intelligence and improving crime analysis abilities and service delivery improvement programmes; and - improve criminal investigation by increasing the number of detectives, their competencies and utilization. • The SAPS identified all crimes against women and children as one of its five operational priorities for 1999/2000. Specific measures aimed at better rape investigation included the training of SAPS members in sexual offences investigation techniques and the establishment of units dealing with family violence, child protection and sexual offences. • The national crime operation code-named Monozite was launched in July 1999. The main aim of the operation, which was extended to the end of March 2000, was to clamp down on crime in crime-related flash-point areas throughout the country by means of high-density intelligence-driven operations. The objective of the operation was to stabilize the affected areas and to ensure a greater feeling of safety and security amongst the communities. Dog Services and the Mounted Unit play a vital role in policing
2000 10 Years of Policing in a Democracy 1995 – 2005 36 • The first official SAPS mentorship programme was launched at the Detective Academy in Silverton. • A comprehensive programme was launched to train all police members in the values and principles of community policing. This policing style is based on the premise that a community and its police service are equal partners and have a shared responsibility in ensuring safety and security. Sector policing was also identified as a focus area. In 2000, a pilot project was launched in the Johannesburg area to develop sector policing as a practical manifestation of community policing. At least one sector was established in each ward of Johannesburg’s police stations. • The Practical Guide to Partnership Policing was drawn up to evaluate successful partnerships at police stations and to implement projects at police stations according to their needs. The first edition was published and was to be updated every three months with new partnership policing initiatives. • In 2000/2001, the introduction of the Crime Prevention Development Programme made it possible to develop a technical support programme for local crime prevention. A network of agencies was established in government and civil society. A number of workshops were presented for local governments, civil society, youth organizations and community-based organizations regarding crime pattern analysis for the development of local crime prevention plans. • A comprehensive, integrated process was introduced to develop a local crime prevention plan for the areas of KwaMashu and Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal and to implement local crime prevention initiatives in 2000/2001 valued at R1 million. • The partnership that was established in 2000 between the Departments of Education and Safety and Security regarding school safety led to the development of a school safety workbook that was launched in June 2001. The workbook was intended for use by educators and school governing bodies and as part of school-based SAPS projects to increase young people’s resistance to crime and violence. • Three basic courses in hostage and suicide negotiation were presented in 2000. The US Embassy assisted the SAPS in presenting a hostage negotiation course in New Mexico. Twenty-three hostage negotiators attended the course. • The SAPS Hostage Negotiation Team responded to a number of hostage and suicide incidents in South Africa. The team dealt with 1 480 incidents in the course of 2000. Most of the incidents were suicide related. • A unit was established in the Labour Relations component of the Division: Personnel Services to monitor alleged incidents of racism and discrimination in the SAPS. • Until 2000, the strategies on transformation and on crime prevention were planned separately. The National Commissioner, Jackie Selebi, then implemented the first ever Strategic Focus for the SAPS, subsequently integrating all SAPS strategies. The 2000- 2003 Strategic Focus also supported government policy and was based on the crime intelligence estimate and crime pattern analysis. A geographical approach and an organized crime combating strategy were developed. Multidisciplinary crime-combating teams were established to deal with serious and violent crime and organized crime in identified areas. • Crime-combating task groups (part of Operation Crackdown) were established in March 2000 to focus on serious and violent crime in 76 identified high-crime zones. The task groups conducted intelligence-driven operations according to the specific crime threat analysis of each zone. These operations were in addition to the usual policing activities in the specific areas. The other leg of Operation Crackdown involved the organized crime approach in terms of which organized crime syndicates were investigated in intelligencedriven operations carried out by task teams under the command of experienced detectives. • The Firearm Strategy was introduced to combat the proliferation of firearms and the Domestic Violence Act, 1998 was implemented to combat crimes against women and children. The SAPS was also involved in various social crime prevention initiatives in
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