Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Having just celebrated ten years of democratic rule, South Africa, as a young
democracy, is an emerging country in the international world. It is also emerging, from a
history of police brutality in apartheid South Africa, towards embracing human rights,
accountability, police-community relations and a people-orientated approach to safety
issues.
It is this young democratic country that is paving the way for metropolitan policing on the
African continent, by setting the example in South Africa. Metropolitan/ Municipal police
has found its legislative mandate through the South African Police Amendment Act (Act
No. 83 of 1995). It provides an opportunity to enable positioning of local government
policing in a manner that will ensure that ‘quality of life’ for all is achieved through
effective, efficient and sustainable policing.
This study aims to give essence to a governance model as a strategy for sustainable
metropolitan policing. The research provided for the following concepts of sustainable
governance as a basis or foundation to build metropolitan policing:
• Institutional/ Managerial/Leadership/Sustainability;
• Political Sustainability;
• Representivity;
• Development and Growth;
• Equitable Allocation and Distribution Resources;
• People-centred Approaches;
• Democratic Rights;
• Professionalism and Ethics;
• Financial sustainability;
• Effective and Efficient Processes;
• Co-ordination and Integration;
• Sustainable decision making;
• Sustainable results The framework for sustainable governance in Metropolitan Policing is broad and key
aspects that influence the main objective of this research, namely co-ordination and
integration have been included, for the purpose of this study.
The study provides opportunity for deep reflection on how future policing at local
government level in this country is structured, shaped and managed. The international
basis of the study provides lessons conceptualised within a ‘learning organisation’
context. Metropolitan police services can enrich their organisation through learning from
their international counterparts and sister organisations, inclusive of the South African
Police Service (SAPS).
It is also the relationship with the SAPS that will be the most challenging for the
metropolitan police service. A key element that shapes the interaction between the
Metropolitan Police organisations and the South African Police Services is based on
sharing of policing power and distribution of resources. A sustainable relationship
between the SAPS and metropolitan police services is important. It directly impacts on
how policing is executed. It also requires consideration when co-ordination and
integration processes in metropolitan police organisations are considered.
The study aims to prove the importance and necessity of integration and co-ordination;
however, it also emphasises the relevance of proper systems, processes and structures
within an environment prior to embracing co-ordination and integration initiatives. It binds
the concept of co-ordination and integration into all facets of organisational life, arguing
the basis for technological assistance to consolidate such transformation.
The study brings metropolitan policing into a transit from a ‘local government traffic
organisation linked to council policies’ to a modern-day police organisation that
embraces the complexities within which such organisations exist, both externally and
internally, finding sustainable solutions and strategies for service delivery that fits our
young democratic heritage of a single decade. The challenge to shape metropolitan policing to be different from the historic apartheidstyle
municipal police force will eventually be a task for leadership of the metropolitan
police organisation (across all levels) in its responses to society in terms of service
delivery outcomes, which will be determined by how the organisation has shaped its
future (vision), what it presents to society in terms of service delivery and the measures
taken to achieve sustainability. The latter refers, in principle, and for purposes of this
study, to good governance and sustainable development, both of which form the
cornerstone of effective and efficient policing. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Teen die agtergrond van die onlangse viering van ‘n dekade van demokrasie, staan
demokratiese Suid Afrika as ‘n opkomende land op die wêreldhorison. Die land is ook
besig on weg te beweeg vanaf ‘n geskende verlede wat gekenmerk was deur
polisiebrutaliteit in apartheid-Suid-Afrika na die omhelsing van menseregte,
verantwoordelikheid, polisie-gemeenskaps verhoudinge en ‘n mensgeoriënteerde
benadering tot veiligheidsaspekte.
Dit is hierdie jong demokrasie wat leiding in Afrika neem met die konsep van
metropolitaanse polisiëring. Die Metropolitaanse/ Munisipale polisie verkry wettige
bestaansreg in die Suid Afrikaanse Polisie Wysigingswet, (Wet Nr 83 van 1995). Dit
voorsien die geleentheid om polisiëring deur middel van plaaslike regering tot reg te laat
kom op ‘n manier wat verseker dat “lewenskwaliteit” vir almal deur effektiewe ,
doeltreffende en volhoubare polisiëring verwesenlik kan word.
Hierdie studie beoog om ‘n basis te vind vir volhoubare beheer in metropolitaanse
polisiering, te wete deur:
• Institutionele / bestuur/ leierskap/ volhoubaarheid;
• Politieke volhoubaarheid;
• Verteenwoordiging;
• Ontwikkeling en groei;
• Gelyke verspreiding en toekenning van hulpbronne;
• Mens-georiënteerde strategieë;
• Demokratiese regte;
• Professionalisme en etiek;
• Finansiële volhoubaarheid;
• Effektiewe en doeltreffende prosesse;
• Ko-ordinering en integrasie;
• Volhoubare besluitneming;
• Volhoubare resultate. Die raamwerk vir volhoubare beheer in metropolitaanse polisiëring is wyd. Kernaspekte
wat die hoofdoelwit van hierdie ondersoek affekteer, naamlik ko-ordinering en
integrering, word vir die doeleindes van hierdie studie ingesluit om die argument te
versterk.
Die studie bied geleentheid vir nabetraging oor hoe die toekoms van polisiëring op
plaaslike regeringsvlak gestruktureer, geposisioneer en bestuur word. Die internasionale
grondslag van die studie bied lesse wat binne ‘n ‘lerende organisasie’ beslag gekry het.
Metropolitaanse polisie-organisasies kan hul organisasies bemagtig deur van hul
internasionale eweknieë en susterorganisasies soos die nasionale Suid-Afrikaanse
Polisiediens. (SAPD) te leer.
Dit is ook die verhouding met die SAPD wat die meeste uitdagings meebring. Naas die
verhouding met die publiek, blyk dit die belangrikste te wees as gevolg van die
polisiëringsmagte en standaarde wat op beide organisasies van toepassing is.
Volhoubaarheid in die verhouding tussen die SAPD en die metropolitaanse
polisiedienste is belangrik aangesien dit ‘n direkte impak op dienslewering asook
integrasie en ko-ordinering kan hê.
Hierdie studie beoog om die belangrikheid en noodsaaklikheid van integrasie en koordinering
te toon. Dit beklemtoon egter ook die noodsaaklikheid daarvan dat behoorlike
stelsels, prosesse en strukture in organisasies geïmplimenteer word voordat koordinering
en intergrasie aangepak word. Die studie verbind die konsepte van koordinering
en intergrasie met alle ander fasette van ‘n organisatoriese stelsel, met ‘n
sterk fokus op die rol van tegnologie ten einde transformasie te bewerkstellig.
Die studie beoog om die transformasie van ‘verkeersdienste-organisasies wat met
raadsbeleid skakel’ na ‘n metropolitaanse polisiëringsdiens te vergemaklik, ten einde ‘n
moderne organisasie daar te stel wat in staat is om kompleksiteit, as ‘n integrale deel
van die interne en eksterne omgewing, deur middel van volhoubare strategieë te bestuur
en aan die vereistes van dienslewering in ‘n jong demokrasie van tien jaar te voldoen.
Die uitdaging om metropolitaanse polisiedienste in ooreenstemming met hedendaagse
demokratiese en konstitutionele beleid te vestig, berus op die leierskap (op alle vlakke) in die organisasie. So ook is daar die verantwoordelikheid om te verseker dat
metropolitaanse polisiedienste die diensleweringsuitkomstes behaal deur middel van ‘n
volhoubare visie, die tipe en gehalte van dienste wat gelewer word en die
prosesse/strategieë wat gevolg word ten einde volhoubaarheid te bereik.
Laasgenoemde (volhoubaarheid) verwys, vir die doeleindes van hierdie studie, na goeie
beheer en volhoubare ontwikkeling, beide deel van die hoeksteen van effektiewe en
doeltreffende polisiëring.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/49413 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Scharnick, Colleen Ann |
| Contributors | Cloete, Fanie, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Public Leadership. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 115 p. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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