Although the Committee did not engage with the Department of Police, the Annual Report of the Department indicates a high level of expenditure under goods and services which is dominated by consultants, contractors, agencies or outsourced services. This is indicative of the lack of capacity. This level of expenditure has increased from R1.22 billion in 2008/09 to R1.44 billion in 2009/10. Of note is that the largest portion of this amount was for contractors (R622 million in 2008/09 to R816 million in 2009/10). The second largest expenditure was for agencies and other outsourced services which increased from R497 million in 2008/09 to R516 million in 2009/10. Payments for infrastructure and planning consultants increased from R3.4 million in 2008/09 to R5.3 million in 2009/10. The Committee is concerned about the utilisation of financial resources on consultants instead of the Department building its own internal capacity thereby creating more job opportunities. This higher level of expenditure on consultants is an indication that consultants are used both for policy work and even for functions which SAPS is supposed to have in its in-house capacity.