The purpose of this programme is to exercise oversight on the South African Police Service on their effectiveness and efficiency to provide safety to communities, conducting research on policing matters to ensure that the interventions to fight crime are informed by reality, implement an integrated approach towards reducing crime and conditions making communities to be victims of crime and to strengthen community based and private partnership with the South African Police Service to fight crime.
The programme consists of five sub programmes or directorates namely:
➢ Programme Support
➢ Policy and Research
➢ Monitoring and Evaluation
➢ Community Police Relations
The strategic objective for this programme is “To monitor and evaluate performance of police stations, conduct research on policing matters, facilitate and coordinate stake holder programmes aimed at contributing towards reducing crime”