6.1.4 According to the National Commissioner the lease for the current head office had been renewed by DPW (on 28 July 2009) without informing the SAPS. The National Commissioner stated that he had not signed the new lease agreement for the Sanlam building. In terms of affordability, he stated that the SAPS budgeted R1.2 billion per year for leases, and thus as the reported R500 million lease was actually the amount over a 10-year period, it was affordable to the SAPS.