Madam Speaker and hon members, the answer to the question is: Crime is one of the government's major focus areas. Its importance is not just in reference to Asgisa, but it is an overarching challenge that the government is focussed on, and therefore we do not have to regard it and to include it as necessarily one of the bounding constrains. The fight against crime has to intensify whether there is Asgisa or not.
As already announced, some of the measures that are to be instituted in this regard will include the increase of the police officers, as was announced by the President; the augmentation of the ICT-based forensic science laboratory for processing DNA by the establishment of another facility in the Western Cape; and the capacity of the intelligence division of the police which is being increased, both in terms of the number of officers and in terms of enabling technical infrastructure. The cluster intends to sustain measures intended to arrest and prosecute repeat offenders, particularly those responsible for serious and violent crimes.
Similarly, the operations to prevent crime in the places and at times when it mostly occurs will be sustained. In this regard, the government particularly wants to massively reduce house burglaries. It is in this particular time that terror visits most people, the sense of insecurity that people feel in their homes. These are the few areas that I am mentioning in which we intend to intensify crime prevention. Of course, the list of our interventions is longer. Thank you.