| (1) |
A municipal council shall appoint a committee consisting of members of the council and such other persons as may be determined by the municipal council to ensure civilian oversight of the municipal police service. |
| (2) |
The committee contemplated in subsection (1) shall— |
| (a) |
at the request of the municipal council in question, advise the council on matters relating to the municipal police service; |
| (b) |
advise the chief executive officer with regard to the performance of his or her functions in respect of the municipal police service; |
| (c) |
perform such functions as the member of the Executive Council, the municipal council or the chief executive officer may consider necessary or expedient to ensure civilian oversight of the municipal police service; |
| (d) |
promote accountability and transparency in the municipal police service; |
| (e) |
monitor the implementation of policy and directives issued by the chief executive officer and report to the municipal council or chief executive officer thereon; |
| (f) |
perform such functions as may from time to time be assigned to the committee by the municipal council or the chief executive officer; and |
| (g) |
evaluate the functioning of the municipal police service and report to the municipal council or chief executive officer thereon. |
[Section 64J inserted by section 3 of Act No. 83 of 1998]
Statistics Act, 1999
