Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
(1) notes that -
(a) during 1999 levels of reported crime increased at a faster rate than any other year since 1994;
(b) between 1998 and 1999 the number of reported violent crimes increased by 9,3%, which is more than any other crime category;
(c) between 1994 and 1999 violent crime increased by 21,6%;
(d) according to the HSRC survey data, almost three times as many South Africans felt unsafe in 1999 compared to 1994 - in 1999 47% of South Africans felt ``unsafe or very unsafe'', up from 16% in 1994; and
(2) in the light of the clear failure by the national Government to fulfil its obligation to all the people of South Africa to provide them with adequate levels of safety and security from criminals, calls on the national Government to make sufficient funding available for local policing initiatives so that municipal police services can be established all over the country, which will be accountable to local governments, trained to SAPS standards, have clear crime- fighting and other performance targets, and be designed to supplement the South African Police Service.