Question NW420 to the Minister of Police
12 March 2021 - NW420
Terblanche, Mr OS to ask the Minister of Police
What steps has the SA Police Service taken since 1 April 2020 to capacitate its Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Units to provide efficient and effective assistance to victims of family violence?
Reply:
An allocation of 312 trainees was eamarked to be placed at the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) units. To date, a total of 288 of the trainees have been placed at various units and the remaining 24 posts are in the process of been fillad laterally. The FCS was allocated a further 70 posts in Phase 1 of the Post Promotion process, for the 2020/2021 financial year and these post are yet to be filled.