In order to build an effective and fit for purpose

In order to build an effective and fit for purpose South
African Police Service, Saps, a DA national government would
adopt a zero tolerance approach to corruption in the police.
You can’t have corrupt police officers chasing down corrupt
politicians.
In fact, Madam Speaker, this very Parliament has an immediate
opportunity to strike fear into the hearts of the corrupt and
criminal elements within Saps by appointing a credible permanent
head of Independent Police Investigative Directorate, IPID, with
unimpeachable integrity.
This is our moment to give real hope to all South Africans
living in fear that we are serious about their safety. A DA-led

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government will insist on the appointment of fit for purpose
officers and management who are passionate about policing, and
we will move to retrain all police officers to serve with
professionalism and protect with pride.
We will establish an effective drug—busting force which will be
deployed to those communities hardest-hit by gang violence. And
lastly, a DA-led government will make policing a provincial
responsibility by giving more of the powers and functions of
policing to provincial commissioners and station commanders so
they are empowered to tackle crime on a local level.
Madam Speaker, despite the President’s promises in his 2018
address that he would focus on the distribution of police
resources to areas hardest-hit by crime, the situation is in
fact getting worse. In the Western Cape last year, half of all
murders were recorded at only 13% of police stations.
These are the stations and communities that need the resources
you promised them last year. Over the past two years, the
Western Cape provincial policing ratio has deteriorated from
one

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police officer to every 385 people, down to one police officer
to every 509 people.
Chairperson, our nation is being held hostage by violent
criminals who literally get away with murder. In South Africa,
109 people are raped and 57 people are murdered every day.
During this very debate, innocent South Africans will be
attacked, raped or murdered. The DA has a plan to turn this
situation around, Mr President, do you?
The MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Hon
Chairperson of the NCOP ... [Interjections.]
Dr M Q NDLOZI: Chair of the NCOP. Chairperson. Hon Masondo.
The CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Yebo. [Laughter.] What are you
saying? On what point are you rising?
Dr M Q NDLOZI: It is a point of order that there is a platform
beneath the podium, hon Nzimande, because where I am sitting I
can’t see you, I just hear a voice. Just climb the platform

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there like hon Naledi Chirwa and the Minister of Small Business
Development.