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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

21. Human resource planning

 

(1) The National Commissioner must, in preparing a human resources plan for the Service—
(a) assess the human resources necessary to perform the functions of the Service, with particular reference to—
(i) the number of employees required;
(ii) the competencies and proficiency levels that those employees must possess;
(iii) the capacities (whether permanent or temporary) in which those employees must be appointed;
(iv) the staffing patterns; and
(v) the training and development interventions required;
(b) assess existing human resources by race, gender, disability, age and any other relevant criteria as well as by occupational category, organisational component and grade with reference to their—
(i) competencies and proficiencies;
(ii) training and development needs; and
(iii) employment capacities;
(c) identify gaps between what is required under subregulation (1)(a) and (b), and prioritise interventions to address the identified gaps; and
(d) plan within the available budgeted funds, including funds for the remaining period of the relevant medium-term expenditure framework, for the recruitment, retention, deployment and development of human resources according to the requirements of the Service determined in terms of subregulation (1)(a), which plan must, as a minimum, include—
(i) realistic goals and measurable targets for achieving representativeness, taking into account subregulation (3); and
(ii) targets for the training and development of employees per occupational category and of specific employees, as well as specific plans to meet the training needs and development of designated groups.

 

(2) The National Commissioner must monitor and evaluate compliance with subregulation (1) and report to the Minister thereon.

 

(3) The Minister must report to the Minister for the Public Service and Administration on an annual basis regarding compliance with subregulation (1).

 

(4) The National Commissioner must develop and implement an affirmative action programme, which must contain, as a minimum, the following:
(a) a policy statement that sets out the commitment of the Service to affirmative action and how that policy will be implemented;
(b) numeric and time-bound targets for achieving representativeness;
(c) annual statistics on the appointment and training within each grade of each occupational category of designated groups; and
(d) a plan for redressing numeric under-representativeness and supporting the advancement of designated groups.

 

(5) The National Commissioner must make the outcome of planning referred to in subregulation (1) and the affirmative action programme referred to in subregulation (4) known within the Service.