NPA Strategic Plan 2013 - 2018 - National Prosecuting Authority

The NPA provides services through the high courts (which represent approximately 0,4%
of workload), regional courts (12.2% of workload) and the district courts (87,4%). 19 The
SDIP primarily focuses on improving the service to customers in the district courts as this is
where the bulk of its customers are served.
Resourcing
To ensure that required resources are allocated to the various service points the
organisation developed a Human Resources (HR) Plan. This Plan aims to “set out the
plans to acquire and develop the requisite skills to ensure service delivery. Crime is
evolving as criminals find new and innovative ways to commit crime. There has been a shift
to cybercrime in the broadest sense of the word, as cyber technology is increasingly
employed to commit crime. The core of the organisation, the National Prosecutions Service
needs to keep up with these developments and be up-skilled in this emerging
phenomenon” (HRP 2012: 10). The information within the HRP is “drawn from a number of
processes and will be utilised as a guide in the management of human resources; to assist
with planning for future service delivery needs and to analyse the gaps between the
demand and the supply of human resources as well as identifying strategies to close the
gaps”.
5.3 Description of the strategic planning process
The NPA annual situation analysis process reviews the following:
Political environment and factors
Economic environment and factors
Social environment and factors
Technological environment and factors
Legislative developments
Environmental factors
Crime statistics and trends
Internal performance
Super-ordinate plans and CJS partner plans
The report is used to identify factors to which the NPA needs to respond in its strategic
planning. A summary of the report is included in the strategic plan. Input is obtained from
senior managers and the strategic plan is developed using the latest templates from
National Treasury. The NPA also aligns its plan to that of the DoJ&CD and seeks to
support initiatives and strategic goals of the department. The Refined JCPS Delivery
Agreement forms the basis for the current NPA plan.
19 Q 3 Performance Report for Public Prosecutions, 2011/12
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