Chairperson, hon Minister and Deputy Minister, I would like to start with the SMART policing strategy. Police strategy and management have to answer serious challenges. Through SMART policing, the department can achieve improved crime control, better service delivery, and cost-effectiveness. SMART policing stands for policing that is strategically managed, analysed, researched, and technology-based.
To begin with, police must do two things: protect and have a relationship with the public. The public must also do the same thing. It is not only the police that must have a relationship with the public. In order to achieve this SMART policing, the following programme is proposed: a new style of community policing, hot spot policing, problem-oriented policing, and crime mapping. In the United States of America, they are already ahead of us.
We need to protect the local communities from crime and violence. This has to begin with housing infrastructure. The concept of cohousing must seriously be considered by the department. Our government must also create a fusion centre where intelligence, information and data are given in order to solve crimes.
Let us come to Home Affairs, and the issue of corruption. We need to have a project. We should have the police there, in terms of five or six officers, so that when officials see them, they won't commit this type of corruption. On the issue of education, it should be seen as a lifelong learning activity for police officers. It must strengthen the police time and again.
Posts are not filled, as you have said, Minister. If you cannot get a suitable person, just hire a person on contract, as this will keep the work of the police going.
Minister, I would like to congratulate you on the preparations for the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. Really, when you see the national commissioner ... I call him General Squeeze. We want him to squeeze all the crime from the cocoons and caves, so that these criminals must come out and be arrested. [Applause.]
This past Sunday, I saw the television programme Duty Calls. That programme, Minister, is fantastic. It must go right around the country, as they are doing, and the presenter ...
... is tweetalig. Sy kan Afrikaans uitstekend praat. Hou aan, Minister. Ons s baie dankie daarvoor. [Applous.] [... is bilingual. She speaks excellent Afrikaans. Keep it up, Minister. We thank you for it. [Applause]]