Question NW1342 to the Minister of Police

Groenewald, Dr PJ to ask the Minister of Police

(1) Whether, with reference to his reply to question 728 on 17 March 2022, he is now in a position to indicate what (a) process must be followed to verify fingerprints during the application for firearm licences and/or competency certificates, (b) total number of applications that need to be verified have been submitted to the Criminal Record Centre in each province (i) in the (aa) 2017-18, (bb) 2018-19. (cc) 2019-20 and (dd) 2020-21 financial year and (ii) since 1 January 2022 and (c) total number of such applications that have been submitted in the specified financial years and period, of the Criminal Record Centre has provided feedback on; (2) what is the reason that the profiling system is not used?