Deputy Speaker, the reply is as follows. Yes, we had positive results after the 2012-13 financial year was declared The Year of the Detective. The following positive results have been recorded.
With regard to recruitment, in a drive to increase the total number of detectives, 479 who had previously been with the Detective Service but who were performing duties in other units of the SA Police Service were redeployed to the Detective Service. A total of 332 new recruits finished their Resolving of Crime Learning Programme in Graaff-Reinet and started their final integrated assessment in Oudtshoorn on 4 March. Madam Deputy Speaker, 192 new recruits are busy with their field training after completing the basic police training and will report for training in the detective work programme on 8 April 2013.
With regard to training, a total of R42 million was allocated to the training of detectives. Furthermore, 1 842 officers attended the Resolving of Crime Learning Programme course, 871 attended the Basic Crime Investigative Practice course and 1 702 were trained in specialised areas. I won't mention all of them because the list is very long and, Deputy Speaker, I will table the response.
With regard to resourcing of detectives, 18 additional posts were allocated to provinces from Head Office Detective Service to capacitate 130 detective court case officers at 116 courts throughout the country.
Every court where such a detective court case officer was placed was provided with a vehicle to be utilised by SAPS members in emergencies, for example to collect reports that are urgently needed by the courts. A total of 21 000 laptops were purchased and distributed. Also, 338 new vehicles were purchased for detective service centres, to be utilised for crime scene investigations, attending to newly reported cases and visiting crime scenes. These vehicles are marked "Crime Scene Investigation" and are fitted with blue lights, sirens and a public address system.
Additionally, 810 refrigerators were purchased and distributed to detective units at station level for those who are focusing on the sexual offences units in order for them to be able to preserve exhibits, whilst 1 350 cooler boxes were purchased and distributed in order to transport these exhibits to laboratories. I will table the response for all these.
On the successes, Madam Deputy Speaker...