Thank you, Chair. Minister, on our trips, both as the portfolio committee and individually, to police stations around the country, we have discovered that there is virtually no knowledge at all about the so-called fingerprint legislation - the Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) Amendment Act - and the ability that that Act gives to our police to forward the fingerprints that they don't recognise from the police database to other databases, such as that of Home Affairs. There is no knowledge of it at the stations we visited.
Could you explain how it is that at the station level there is no knowledge of what was, for us, a very gruelling process to get this legislation through and passed? Also, have the relevant regulations been drawn up yet? I know, for example, when it comes to the Second-Hand Goods Act, which we passed here about three years ago, that they haven't even finished the regulations yet. It feels to me as though the legislation we work day and night to pass never gets past these doors. And I am finding that extremely disconcerting. Thank you.