(1) With reference to the proposed establishment of a metropolitan police department by the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality as gazetted in March 2021 and the progress report to the municipal council on the progress of establishing such a department dated 2 June 2021, (a) on the basis of which legal framework and/or legislative provisions is it /JO9Gible for a person who has a criminal record to be appointed as a learner constable or as any other staff member of a metropolitan police department, and then to be assisted by the municipality with the expungament of such criminal record after the person was appointed and (b) what action will he and/or the National Commissioner of Police take to prevent the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality from appointing persons who have criminal record9;