Hon Chair, maybe just to respond to the question, if you can come to the police college and see the people who are there, you will see that it is young people from the ages of 18 to 35. It is young people who go through all the necessary training. If you look at the world, broadly, no young person is corrupt or commits these offences. It is the influences around that particular individual that tend to cause that.
So, the screening in the Police Service is competent, efficient, and we bring in the right people. What happens in the process is another story and it happens in any company all over the world. There is no company that employs a crook, but crooks tend to be groomed within those companies. It is the same situation, unfortunately.
We cannot refuse to employ or recruit competent people, at the beginning, in the Police Service just because we anticipate that they are going to commit offences one or two. They are all innocent at the beginning, and they all qualify in terms of the requirements to become police officers.
Measures to combat drug dealing in Western Cape
137. Mr N J Mack (ANC) asked the Minister of Safety and Security:
Whether his department has put any measures in place to combat drug dealing (or drug trafficking) in the Western Cape; if not, (a) why not and (b) when will they be put in place; if so, what measures?