Is he going to answer on behalf of the Minister of Police? That's alright. The head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, DPCI, was appointed on 21 May 2009. Today, nearly six months later, we have seen that they have transferred the money from the Scorpions to the Hawks.
Could whichever Minister explain if this is merely officialising the agreed transfer and that the money has already been utilised in establishing the Hawks or not? Either way, could he explain to this House why it seems as if many of the ex-Scorpion members who have moved to the Hawks have suffered large pay cuts against all labour legislation and have in many instances stayed for six months with no computers, emails or printers and have been taken off the 639 cases they worked on while in the Scorpions and have instead been scattered around the country to the three existing South African Police Service, SAPS, units: organised crime, commercial crime and crime intelligence? If those units already existed, what exactly is the Hawks, except a name?