6.4.1 Departmental presentation: The SAPS, in its presentations to the Committee, did not explicitly acknowledge any problems with its current track record with regard to the construction of police stations. In the briefing of 3 September 2010, the SAPS presented a slide illustrating ideal and actual construction time periods for small, medium, large and mega stations. It did acknowledge in this slide that the actual construction time periods were indeed longer than those that are ideal. However, the actual time periods for construction identified in the slide (ranging from two years for a small station to under three years for a mega station) are clearly not a reflection of the actual time periods for SAPS building projects. The research of the Task Team highlighted above, has illustrated that these range between three to over six years. In addition, the SAPS presented a slide illustrating rising costs for construction. The slide did not illustrate the difference between planned and actual costs. However, some acknowledgement was made of the fact that SAPS building projects had not historically been completed within acceptable timeframes, in the slide which states that the 'aim is to have shorter delivery time (1st project currently ahead of program-Ga-Masemola)'.