Chairperson, the ACDP will not support Budget Vote 21. Members of the Portfolio Committee on Safety and Security have expressed their disapproval of the unjustifiably high number of staff members in the ICD's national office.

Three provinces, namely the Northern Cape, Free State and Mpumalanga, according to the list of employees that has been given to the members, do not have a single person performing secretarial or clerical duties, while the national office has more than 25 employees performing secretarial and clerical duties. As a result provinces are inhibited in performing their duties and the ACDP will therefore not support this budget, because they had plenty of time to rectify this mistake.