Police committee gives the Dangerous Weapons Bill the green light, despite the fact that police ‘didn’t pitch’ and committee could not deal with the implementation plan THERE will be no more leniency when the South African Police Service (SAPS) asks for its meetings with MPs to be rescheduled, Parliament heard on Tuesday.Police committee acting chairwoman Annelize van Wyk demanded an explanation as to why a SAPS team failed to attend a briefing last week on its implementation plan for the Dangerous Weapons Bill.The team was meant to brief the committee on February 19, but requested an extension.The committee rescheduled the briefing until February 26, but that meeting was also postponed after an SAPS request.Last week, the team failed to arrive."We could continue with the bill because the department’s legal team, the secretariat and the state law advisers were here, but we couldn’t deal with the implementation plan because they didn’t pitch — with no apology, explanation, or phone...
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