Thank you, Chairperson. Minister, drugs, such as Tik and Sugars, are part of a plague destroying families. Parents are prostituting their 10-year old daughters to feed their habit. These drugs are killing addicts across the length and breadth of this country. And there is a move towards more sophisticated drugs such as Mandrax, to which you have referred earlier on - smuggled from China - which means there is a need for more and more sophisticated techniques on the part of our SAPS.
However, it is incredibly difficult for the police to raid a known illegal drug manufacturer's property as they must be in possession of a sworn affidavit before such a raid is permitted, and the person who swears such an affidavit that drugs are held or manufactured in a certain house is then in fear of his or her life.
Minister, what steps are you taking to ease this situation in dealing with the Department of Justice, to make it easier for our police in their strategic moves in this regard rather than wasting their time and ours on such frivolous moves as arresting the Mayor of Cape Town during a legal march against drugs?