Thank you, Speaker. Hon Minister, it is of great concern to us that the largest percentage of the appropriation relating to the five programmes goes not to visible policing or to detective services or crime intelligence, but to the protection and security services - in other words, VIP protection and static and mobile security, which also then includes the police stations.
Most of the police stations that we have visited now hire private security, and we need an assurance from the Minister that the majority of the 33,6% increase will be spent on protecting foreign embassy officials and diplomats, who have recently come under attack. It doesn't look good for the reputation of our country that more energy and effort will be put into protecting them from further attacks, rather than protecting our own police officers from being robbed. Thank you.