Well thanks for the speech. [Laughter.] Chairperson, the first question that we were taken to court by this coalition, this body, and the Minister of Police was found wanting, that the Western Cape was underresourced is not a correct interpretation. It is put that way all the time. The actual decision of the court is that the affluent areas - in the Western Cape - were overresourced at the expense of the poor areas in the Western Cape. So, that is one thing that we need to sort out that these
reallocations must in the Western Cape even before you bring people from outside to make up these figures, that is the one point I want to make.
The second point I want to make is that, hon ... [Inaudible.], I have had meetings after we had agreed with the premier that we will have meetings that it is no use to come here and boast about the resources that they are putting there. We have said; the police understand better how to work these resources. Let us sit down and work on these resources. Do not move around and sing about them. For instance, the Western Cape has put R5 million to say, that R5 million will help to employ the reservists that are there. We have said to them; we do not need the reservists more than the lighting in the city. We do not need reservist more than the cameras in the city. If you go to Marikana, wherein 2017 there was a massacre of 11 people, the then Minister made a request to say, put on eight of those tall lights so that we can see what is happening in Marikana. I was in Marikana three to four weeks ago, there is one and it is not working and this request was made in 2017. So, you come here; you determine what you do with your R5 million instead of all of us sitting down and determine what we are going to do with the R5 million. Secondly, they offer their civil servants from administration to come and work at the police station to ease the
police's load on giving affidavits. It is not the job of the SA Police Service to give affidavits. All councillors are commissioners of oaths, they must go to them. Do not come and crowd our police stations here for things like affidavits instead of them doing their basic job, send them to the council offices, the MPs, most pastors, school principals. Please allow the police stations to do their work.
So, if then you do not have any assistance; send them to those civil servants, do not bring them to the station, they know nothing about taking statements. We are not going to bring administrators to come and take statements there; they know nothing about that, which means that all those cases will be kicked out. So, please, sit down with us. Do not move around there and make a noise that, it is insignificant and does not help us. When it comes to Bonteheuwel per se, this province, since we started last year and this year, there is no province that we have given more resources than this one. We have put here what we call Operation Thunder, where we pool more police from other provinces to come and work here. The launch of the Anti-Gang Unit has been done in this province and with 50 new cars that were not budgeted for this province. So, we have put in so much and we have put base camps in the townships like Uitsig and other
places. If they bring in some form of resources, we welcome that but we are simply saying, let us work together. Thank you. [Applause.]