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Parliament, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 – The Ad Hoc Committee on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill today began the first leg of the Western Cape province public hearings on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill at the Rosemoor Community Hall in George in the Garden Route District. The committee welcomed approximately 170 members of the public to the hearings.
Inputs received during today’s hearing expressed general support for the Bill. Some members of the public who expressed conditional support of the Bill, proposed that recruitment of intelligence agents by the academy should be at university or college level to ensure that recruits have a qualification before they join the intelligence services. Other proposed amendments included that the President of the country inform premiers of threats in the affected provinces to allow them to direct provincial law enforcement agencies to react.
Other inputs included linking ward committees, neighbourhood watch and community police forums to intelligence services to enable these structures to be an added resource to assist with curbing corruption and crime. The committee received inputs from various neighbourhood watch forums that raised security and safety concerns for whistle blowers. Members of the public also proposed that the Bill should strengthen the oversight powers of the Inspector General of Intelligence.
The committee is grateful to the citizens of the Garden Route District and its surroundings for making input into the Bill. The committee will continue with the Western Cape leg of the public hearings in the City of Cape Town in Belthorn Recreation Centre in Athlone on 7 February 2024
ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNICATION SERVICES ON BEHALF OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE GENERAL INTELLIGENCE LAWS AMENDMENT BILL, MR JEROME MAAKE.
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