Well, yes. I think one reason would be that they are overloaded. It is one reason that detectives will not be attracted to the work they do. Last week I went to Khayelitsha and I spoke to one detective that had 133 dockets when the other one had
five. So, those are imbalances. However, I don't want pre-empt, but the Deputy Minister of Police is leading the team that will be responsible of establishing a specialised detective academy. That is in the hands of her. She is even going to see those that are best in detectives, because we want it to be attractive. We want more people, especially younger people to be trained on the thing.
One thing that we want to go back that some years ago, 2010, when I was within the SA Police, but on the other side, we thought that people like detectives because promotion is very hard to come about, you better promote their salaries while they are there and while they are doing a good work - the better the work, the better the promotion of salaries. Therefore, we do want to make this world of detectives very much attractive. We are working very hard on that. Thank you.
Maj Gen O S TERBLANCHE: Thank you, Chairperson. Hon Minister, we have a shortage of detectives in the country already. Now, given the shortage of detectives in the Police Service and the R64,2 million budget cut from the
detectives services budget, would you agree with me, Minister, that SA Police Service, SAPS, is contributing to its own failure in executing its mandate to detect crime. I thank you.