Pretoria - The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has a new business approach that will accelerate service delivery, it said on Thursday.
“The new business management approach addresses challenges, in order to accelerate service delivery,” it said.
Enhancing public safety and an effective criminal justice through effective management of remand detention are among the core functions of the department.
The department’s new mission is to contribute to a just, peaceful and safer South Africa through effective and humane incarceration of inmates and the rehabilitation and social reintegration of offenders.
“The realignment, contained in the DCS 2013/14 to 2017/18 Strategic Plan and 2013/14 Annual Performance Plan, spells out plans to enhance public safety through effective management of remand processes, the provision of secure, and humane conditions, for incarcerated offenders, effective rehabilitation programmes to offenders as well as assisting offenders to reconnect with their communities, and families, as law-abiding citizens”
Earlier this year, Minister Sibusiso Ndebele instructed the department to implement a turn-around strategy.
“We should be able to re-socialize offenders by restoring their self-respect, which will enhance their respect for other people and, therefore, create a new human being,” the Minister said. - SAnews.gov.za
