The NFP welcomes and supports the BRRR tabled here today. Now, the responsibility of this department is to ensure the safety of our citizen and visitors at large. The question is, Is this the case? The response is unfortunately and emphatically, no. It is not always the SA Police Service that must take the responsibility for the failure of ensuring the safety of our people. Contributing factors include high unemployment, lack of housing or proper housing, lack of electricity, lack of water and sanitation, lack of street lights, lack of roads, high substance abuse, including teenage pregnancy. Unless all the relevant departments like Basic Education, Higher Education, Social Development, Water and Sanitation, and all the others, including Home Affairs come together in a concerted effort to work together, the future is very bleak - particularly for a safe South Africa.
Minister, whilst you are here, I want to draw your attention to another great challenge that you are going to be experiencing shortly, particularly in the Western Cape, and that is the violence that is brewing in the towing industry. Already there has been damage to
property; there has been shooting; there has been loss of life in this, already in the Western Cape - particularly in Cape Town. Unless you start addressing these things, we are going to run into trouble.
The NFP is calling for the professionalisation of the SAPS by introducing policing into the curriculum in schools so that it can attract those with the passion for policing, but very little or nothing has happened about it. I will give an example of when people or victims who are refusing to go out and report to police station because of the ineffective detective work.
I have case number 333 of August 2019 from Mfuleni Police Station, and another one is case number 320 of September 2019 from Milnerton Police Station. To date, the victims have heard absolutely nothing from SA Police Service. Gang violence continues; drug trade continues; drive-by shooting continues; rape continues; murder continues. Independent Police Investigative Directorate does not even have the efficacy to deal with this. [Time expired.] The NFP supports this report.