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South African Police Service Act, 1995 (Act No. 68 of 1995)

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South African Police Service Employment Regulations, 2018

Chapter 3 : Planning and Service Delivery

20. Strategic planning

 

(1) The Minister must prepare a strategic plan for the Service—
(a) stating the core objectives of the Service, based on Constitutional and other legislative mandates, functional mandates and the service delivery improvement programme mentioned in regulation 23;
(b) describing the core and support activities necessary to achieve the core objectives, avoiding duplication of functions;
(c) describing the targets to be attained in the medium term;
(d) setting out a programme for attaining those targets;
(e) specifying information systems that—
(i) enable him or her to monitor the progress made towards achieving those goals, targets and core objectives;
(ii) support compliance with the reporting requirements in regulation 25 and the National Minimum Information Requirements, referred to in regulation 50;
(f) including a summary of the outcome of the processes referred to in subregulation (2) in the strategic plan of the Service; and
(g) complying with the requirements in paragraphs 5.1 and 5.2 of the Treasury Regulations.

 

(2) Based on the strategic plan of the Service, the National Commissioner must—
(a) determine the organisational structure of the Service in terms of its core and support functions;
(b) define the posts necessary to perform the relevant functions while remaining within the current budget and medium-term expenditure framework of the Service, and the posts so defined, constitute the fixed establishment of the Service;
(c) grade proposed new jobs or newly defined jobs according to the job evaluation system referred to in regulation 29 except where the grade of a job has been determined in terms of an OSD; and
(d) engage in human resource planning in accordance with regulation 21 with a view to meeting the resulting human resource needs.

 

(3) In implementing the strategic plan, the National Commissioner must—
(a) promote the efficient, economic and effective use of resources so as to improve the functioning of the Service; and
(b) to that end, apply working methods such as the re-allocation, simplification, purification and coordination of work, and eliminate unnecessary functions.