The General Stores were found in a very poor state. The key problem with the stores is that there are a large number of different stores located around the station, including a number of containers. All of these storage containers were extremely dirty, posing a contamination risk to the evidence contained within them. There also did not seem to be any logical order to the exhibits in the containers. Instead of grouping all bikes together or all liquor together, these were strewn amongst the different containers. The staff working in the Stores struggled to find requested items, because they were kept in so many different containers. Not all items were properly labelled. The staff in control of the Stores seems to be trying to do their best under very trying conditions. Key problems that they face are: lack of space and thus the fact that their stores are scattered all over the precinct; shortage of a vehicle to allow them to transfer drugs and other valuable items quickly and regularly to Pretoria or where they need to go; shortage of labels and exhibit bags (the Committee did find a whole stack of exhibit bags in one of the detectives filing cabinets); and the fact that an auction that was arranged to get rid of the goods that could be disposed of was cancelled and not rearranged.