Minister of Correctional Services Pieter Groenewald on Tuesday led a department team to brief the Correctional Services Portfolio Committee on issues surrounding parolees.
The Department of Correctional Services on Tuesday said it was in the process to resuscitate the procurement of electronic monitoring devices for parolees, while still engaged in litigation with a service provider.
National Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale said they have submitted a document to the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) to continue with the procurement of the devices.
“We have tentatively received positive consideration from Integrated Justice System (IJS) funding for electronic monitoring. What is left now is for SITA to process as much as they can as we are in arbitration with the service provider,” he said.
The department has allocated R15 million to kickstart the procurement for the electronic monitoring devices.
