INDEPENDENT POLICE INVESTIGATIVE DIRECTORATE BILL LEAVES PARLIAMENT

INDEPENDENT POLICE INVESTIGATIVE DIRECTORATE BILL LEAVES PARLIAMENT

• 20 March 2024
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The NCOP has passed the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Amendment Bill’s ‘B’ version, which has been sent to the President for signature.

According to the parliamentary media statement announcing this, once enacted and in force the new piece of legislation will remedy provisions in the principal statute giving the Minister of Police ‘excessive political powers’ and ‘allowing undue influence over the executive director of IPID’.

The amendments were informed by a September 2016 Constitutional Court ruling ‘involving the suspension of then-IPID executive director … Robert McBride’. Prior to that ruling, the minister could ‘suspend, discipline, or remove the executive director without parliamentary oversight, eroding the … independence of (the) IPID’,

This is noting that, terms of the principal statute, the IPID was established as an independent police complaints body to investigate alleged misconduct or offences committed by members of the South African Police Service and municipal police.

• Bill’s ‘B’ version
• media statement
• parliamentary papers confirming that both Houses have passed the Bill
• September 2016 Constitutional Court ruling  

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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