Hon Chair, I started asking questions about criminal police officers in 2007. The audit began in 2010. Even then this process was only half a job, because it ended at the end of 2009. It has been revealed that 568 of the 1 448 members of criminally convicted SAPS members were guilty of multiple and serious offences committed over the years, yet the audit was not continued into 2012.
We need to know what more you are hiding, Minister. How many more thousand SAPS members are convicted felons, working in the SAPS with a gun on their hips? Really, it is time for you to apologise because, internationally, this is seen almost as bad for South Africa as the Selebi saga. Our reputation is a laughing stock again. The fact that you have promoted most of these criminals in the SAPS right up to the top ranks is even more shameful. Apologise! [Time expired.] [Interjections.]