Thank you, hon member of this House.]
Chairperson, I agree with Minister Balfour, I think what I need to do is pick up this Deputy Minister and talk to Minister Balfour and lock him up. [Laughter.] He is very destructive.
Engingakusho ukuthi emaphoyiseni asinalo uhlelo olufana nolwezokuvikela ... [What I can say is that in the Police Service ... we do not have such a programme ...]
... where our members when they are old, can be provided with extra training to start their own private businesses. We do not have that kind of a programme because it is not part of our core business. I think the difference between us and the Defence Force is that police officers are in the police force until the age of 60. We have a programme which tends to recognise the various experiences and skills which the police have until they reach the age of 60.
As we all know, at the age of 60 or 65 one has to go on retirement, so we follow that normal procedure or process but in general those old police officers whom you might call old, are very critical due to the experience they have and they're better off. I know you might be talking about some of them who might be obese. [Laughter.]
We might have those who have health problems. We put them on a programme of trying to help them healthwise and if they are physically unfit, unfortunately, we have to find a way of boarding them from the Police Service. We don't have a programme that allows them or helps them to be trained maybe to have small businesses later in life. It is not within the police competency.