Home Affairs Committee demands consequence management against corrupt officials
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The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has urged both the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Communication and Department of Communications and Digital Technologies to ensure consequence management against officials identified to have acted corruptly during the procurement of the Automated Biometric Identification System (Abis).
National police spokesperson, Brigadier Vish Naidoo
GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel regarding the massive DNA testing backlog. So says national police spokesperson, Brigadier Vish Naidoo.
In a statement released earlier this week, Naidoo says they are making great strides in overcoming the backlog, while a new system to track and trace forensic exhibits is up and running.
The previous forensic system was shut down by the service provider in June last year. This resulted in the disappearance of millions of forensic exhibits from the national database.
Not only were DNA exhibits inaccessible, but the system itself experienced a bottleneck of 170 000 samples, apparently due to a shortage of quantification kits.
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NATIONAL NEWS - After Police Minister Bheki Cele last month admitted to having sleepless nights because of the country’s DNA testing backlog, a statement released on Monday said Saps had made “great strides” in getting track and trace forensic exhibits up and running.
The previous forensic system was shut down by the service provider in June last year. This resulted in the “disappearance” of millions of forensic exhibits from the national database.
From June until April, exhibits could only be accessed manually, frustrating prosecutors dealing with cases of rape, murder and gender-based violence.
New system
Police and the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) have now developed a new forensic exhibit management (FEM) system, which tracks and traces functionality and completely replaces the previous system.
Police say DNA backlog at forensic laboratories is being dealt with 26 April 2021 - 11:31 Image: 123RF/Felipe Caparros Cruz
The SA Police Service management has reassured the nation that while the backlog in the forensic laboratories is being handled with the urgency it deserves, priority is given to DNA samples required for court cases, especially those related to gender-based violence (GBV) cases, and DNA samples needed for the identification of people for burials.
Last month parliament’s police portfolio committee was told the DNA testing backlog increased from 117,000 in December to close to 173,000 in the first week of March.
There were also reports about the disappearance of millions of forensic exhibits at the national forensic DNA database due to the property control and exhibit management (PCEM) system being shut down by the service provider in June 2020.
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