Department of Safety and Liaison

An integrated plan to boost provincial economic performance

The Department of Safety and Liaison in the Eastern Cape aims to promote police accountability and good community-police relations in pursuit of the strategic focus areas contained in the Provincial Growth and Development Plan.


Mission and mandate

Ghishma Barry, MEC: Safety and Liaison

The Eastern Cape Department of Safety and Liaison derives its mandate from Chapter 11, Section 206 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, as well as from the South African Police Act of 1995. These two pieces of legislation outline the department’s responsibility for the oversight of the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Furthermore, the department’s mandate stems from the White Paper on Safety and Security and the National and Provincial Crime Prevention Strategy. These documents outline the department’s role in social crime-prevention through social mobilisation.


Provincial Crime-Prevention Strategy
The Provincial Crime Prevention Strategy (PCPS) is based on the principles of the National Crime- Prevention Strategy and links closely to the Provincial Growth and Develop-ment Plan of the Province.

The prime objectives of the PCPS are to reduce crime, and corruption in the Eastern Cape, and to establish improved multiagency collaboration in crime-prevention matters in order to improve service delivery and the perception of safety.

The PCPS outlines four main aims. These are to strengthen communities, to prevent violence, to prevent corruption and to strengthen the criminal justice system.

The PCPS multiagency committee was established to ensure the implementation of the PCPS. This committee incorporates all provincial departments, as well as local-government bodies, and shares information with the Eastern Cape Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster (EC-JCPS).


Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster
A new cluster – incorporating Justice, Crime Prevention and Security – was launched in 2008. The cluster aims to coordinate and strengthen relationships between all law-enforcement agencies in the province and further promote cooperative governance in the fight against crime.

Objectives of the EC-JCPS cluster
• To coordinate the implementation of the Provincial Crime-Prevention Strategy with all relevant provincial and national departments,
as well as district municipalities and Metro Safety Forums.
• To support the coordination and integration of community-mobilisation campaigns for the prevention of crime.
• To support the improvement of the efficiency and speed of the criminal-justice process, especially court administration, case processing and victim empowerment.
• To support the building and improvement of public confidence in, and access to, the criminal-justice system.

Priorities of the EC-JCPS cluster
• Strengthen the criminal-justice system
• Crime reduction through community mobilisation
• Border control and security
• Hands-on support to local government
• Big events security management

CONTACT DETAILS
Key contact person:
• Mzoli Sikukula, Manager: Communications

Physical address: Old Commissioner Building,
Independence Avenue, Bhisho 5605
Postal address: Private Bag X0057, Bhisho 5605
Tel: +27 40 604 7 414
Fax: +27 40 643 4209
Email: mzoli.sikukula@safety.ecprov.gov.za
Website: www.safety.ecprov.gov.za

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