Question NW4045 to the Minister of Police

Reply:

(a) & (b) (i) - (vii),

The following operational amounts were budgeted and allocated to provinces and national competencies (divisions) in the respected financial years:

	2009/10 R’000	2010/11 R’000	2011/12 R’000	2012/13 R’000	2013/14 R’000	2014/15 R’000	2015/16 R’000
Western Cape	642 266	697 851	687 434	678 224	700 025	693 746	711 558
Northern Cape	223 803	256 498	247 262	255 099	263 351	264 520	271 461
Free State	386 323	420 504	412 994	399 285	412 103	412 679	423 227
Eastern Cape	672 776	742 339	714 700	717 259	740 608	739 460	759 026
KwaZulu-Natal	818 344	900 290	875 459	926 498	955 916	950 841	974 482
Mpumalanga	328 595	367 822	359 681	363 177	374 812	376 642	386 236
Limpopo	410 378	452 919	441 728	458 364	473 192	476 934	489 257
Gauteng	1 207 681	1 296 661	1 278 234	1 247 603	1 287 665	1 252 477	1 284 255
North West	383 672	421 325	410 963	416 125	429 835	431 092	442 773
National competencies	3 120 482	2 805 695	3 149 703	3 362 241	3 533 746	3 894 319	4 438 576

To provide a perspective on the amounts allocated to cost centres on national and provincial level as well as the different financial years, it is deemed appropriate to provide the following information:

• National competencies (divisions) comprise inter alia of Forensic Services, Visible Policing, Operational Response Service, Protection and Security Services, Crime Intelligence, Human Resource Development, Human Resource Management, Facilities Management, Supply Chain Management, Legal Services, Financial Management, Technology Management Services, Inspectorate and functions reporting directly to the National Commissioner.

• Some competencies performed in provinces report directly to divisions and their expenditure vests therefore with such a division. For example, Training Institutions, Crime Intelligence, Forensic Services, Protection and Security Services, National Intervention Units, Task Force, Internal Audit and SAPS garages.

• The operational budget is apportioned between cost centres which include overtime and capital purchases such as vehicles.

• Over and above the direct operational budgets of cost centres, some operational items/ aspects are separately funded by the Head Office divisions, i.e. uniform, ammunition, firearms, IT products and services, erection and purchase of new facilities, leasing of facilities and municipal services for all facilities.

• A comparative interpretation of budget allocations per financial year therefore does not provide context as shifting of functions between provinces and national (divisions) in terms of the organizational structural changes are not discounted over the period.