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Independent Police Investigative Directorate Act, 2011 (Act No. 1 of 2011)

Chapter 2 : National Office

9. Functions of national office

 

The functions of the national office are to—

(a) give strategic leadership to the Directorate;
(b) develop and implement policy for the Directorate;
(c) oversee and monitor performance at provincial level and intervene to rectify challenges where necessary;
(d) gather, keep and analyse information in relation to investigations;
(e) identify and review legislative needs and report on such matters to the Secretariat;
(f) do internal auditing of the Directorate;
(g) provide administrative support to the Directorate;
(h) strengthen the co-operative relationship between the Directorate and the Secretariat;
(i) report to the relevant MEC on matters referred to the Executive Director by the MEC;
(j) submit an annual report to the Minister and to Parliament;
(k) implement information measures to develop public awareness of the provisions of this Act;
(l) deal with any other matter referred to it by the Minister;
(m) make recommendations to the South African Police Service resulting from investigations done by the Directorate; and
(n) report twice a year to Parliament on the number and type of cases investigated, the recommendations, the detail and outcome of those recommendations.