Annual Performance Plan - Saps

An integrated policing approach has been emphasised by police management as the best option to ensure the
synergy between operational plans in various environments. It advocates for an integrated approach to policing
which emphasises multi-disciplinary collaboration. This will be coupled with intelligence-led (strategic and tactical
intelligence) investigations to ensure that the detection rate and court ready case dockets are increased to contribute
to the CJS performance. Budgetary planning and strategic deployment of resources will be conducted within the
framework of the integrated policing strategy during the financial year.
Police work is hazardous in nature, hence the resultant unwelcome annual statistics of murders and killing of police
on duty and off-duty. During the 2010/11 financial year alone, 93 members were murdered countrywide, i.e. 36 were
murdered on duty and 57 off duty. This phenomenon has been identified by the department as one of the risk factors
that affect the morale of the members. Some of the on-duty incidents include instances where police were responding
to a complaint, investigating a case, apprehending a suspect, in a robbery in progress or during a car chase, surprise
or targeted ambush attacks. The continued implementation of SAPS precautionary measures and interventions, which
include the involvement of civil society and the business sector to address these killings, contribute to the gradual
decrease in these incidents and this will be enhanced during the 2012/13 financial year.
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