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POLICING: COMPREHENSIVE AMENDMENT BILL HEADS TO PARLIAMENT
- 05 December 2025
- Safety and Security
- SA Legal Academy
The Civilian Secretariat for the Police Service has gazetted a notice announcing the imminent tabling of a South African Police Service Amendment Bill in Parliament. In the form of a procedurally required pre-tabling explanatory summary, the notice summarises a raft of proposed amendments to several statutes.
Among other things, the changes envisaged for the 1995 South African Police Service Act will seek to:
- provide for the establishment a ‘single national police service’
- strengthen existing provisions on the ‘establishment, powers, functions and control of municipal police services’
- provide for the establishment of a national policing advisory committee and related governance/administrative requirements
- ‘provide for (the) integrity testing of new members of the service and lifestyle audits (in respect) of all members’
- provide for the inclusion of municipal police recruits in DNA profiling submission requirements
- ‘provide for the establishment of an intelligence division’
- substantively change existing provisions for community policing forums, and
- make criminal offences of:
- ‘hoaxes and the spreading of false information’, and
- involvement in investigations where thre is a conflict of interest.
In addition:
- proposed amendments to the 1993 Regulation of Gatherings Act will seek to ensure that SAPS members ‘use minimum force which is reasonably necessary and proportional in the circumstances’
- changes envisaged for the 1996 National Road Traffic Act will seek to ensure that regulations on the curricula of traffic officers are appropriately consulted, and
- proposed amendments to the 2011 Civilian Secretariat for Police Service Act will seek to provide for the establishment of:
- neighbourhood patrolling, neighbourhood watch and farm watch associations
- community policing forums
- district and provincial community policing boards, and
- a national community policing board.
At the time of writing, the Bill had yet to be made public.
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