Programme: Visible Policing is one of the priority programmes of the Department. It has three sub-programmes, namely Crime Prevention, Borderline Security and Specialised Interventions. The Programme takes the biggest chunk of the total budget allocation due to its size in personnel numbers. In the current financial year, it received 38 per cent of the total allocation (R20.7 billion), while during the previous year it received 41 per cent (R19.7 billion). In total, it received -1.77 per cent real decrease compared to the previous year's real increase of 4.92 per cent.