9 April 2018
SAPS PROVINCIAL BUDGET ALLOCATION 2018/19
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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ...... 1 2. SAPS PROVINCIAL ALLOCATION – INCLUDING COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES 2016/17 – 2018/19 ...... 2 3. CONSTRUCTION AND PLANNED MAINTENANCE OF POLICE STATIONS ALLOCATION IN 2018/19 (INCLUDING SECURITY / PERIMETER FENCING) ...... 4 3.1 POLICE STATIONS PRIORITISED FOR CONSTRUCTION AND PLANNED MAINTENANCE PER PROVINCE ...... 4 3.2 POLICE RESOURCING: EQUALITY COURT CASE CHALLENGING SAPS THEORETICAL HUMAN RESOURCE REQUIREMENT ...... 7 3.2 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIREARMS CONTROL ACT, 2000 ...... 9 4. CONCLUSION ...... 10 5. SOURCES ...... 11
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1. INTRODUCTION
The mandate of the National Council of Provinces is to ensure that provincial interests are taken into account in Parliament’s legislative and other processes, including considering and passing the Budget. The Select Committee on Security and Justice oversees the South African Police Services (SAPS), which tables its national budget vote in Parliament. The SAPS is responsible for Outcome 3 (ensuring that all people are and feel safe) of the National Development Plan 2030, which inter alia emphasises building safer communities, fighting corruption and promoting accountability. Although the SAPS is a national department, it has provincial offices headed by Provincial Commissioners responsible for policing in their respective provinces.
As the Select Committee has a particular interest in the provincial allocations of the SAPS, this paper provides information on the 2018/19 allocation to provinces from the national budget of the SAPS. Provincial allocations are not included in the Police’s budget vote information contained in the Estimates of National Expenditure tabled in Parliament. 1
The budget information in this paper is based largely on written responses from the SAPS to requests for information sent in 2017 and 2018; and should be read together with the overview and analysis of the SAPS national budget (Vote 23). 2
1 National Treasury (2018). Estimates of National Expenditure. Police Budget Vote 23. 2 See paper “Overview of the Police Portfolio Budget 2018/19” by N van Zyl-Gous. 1 Research Unit | Author Name: Patricia Whittle Author Contact Details: (021) 403-8306
The 2018/19 Budget allocation of the South African Police Service (SAPS) is R91.8 billion (representing a nominal increase of 5.82%) compared to the R86.8 billion SAPS received in 2017/18.3 Of this budget, R54.4 billion has been allocated to provinces in 2018/19, compared to R48.7 billion (R48 722 115 000) in 2016/17.4 In December 2017, the SAPS personnel figure was 26 810 compared to a population figure of 14 278 700. This brought the police / population ratio to 532.6:15, which is higher than the national police/population ratio of 369 citizens for every police officer in 2016 (based on the 2016 mid-year population estimate of 55 908 900).6
The following are noteworthy in respect of the SAPS provincial allocations generally:
Provincial allocations are in most part managed by the SAPS national office – these include compensation of employees, appointments, promotions and increases in benefits. Expenditure is recorded per station, unit and province.7 Allocations exclude national competencies located in provinces like forensic services, crime scene management, technology management, mechanical services and facility management payments. Certain operational items/ aspects i.e. uniforms, ammunition, firearms, IT products and services, erection and purchase of new facilities, leasing of facilities and municipal services for all facilities, are separately funded by the Head Office divisions. Certain competencies performed in provinces report directly to divisions responsible for their expenditure. These include Training Institutions, Crime Intelligence, Forensic Services, Protection and Security Services, National Intervention Units, Task Force, Internal Audit and SAPS garages.
2. SAPS PROVINCIAL ALLOCATION – INCLUDING COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES 2016/17 – 2018/198
TOTAL: R 54 354 095 000
3 National Treasury (2018). Estimates of National Expenditure. Police Budget Vote 23. 4 Information on 2017/18 provincial allocation not available at time of writing. 5 South African Police Service (2017). Annual Report 2016/2017. p28. According to StatsSA the 2016 population estimate was 55 653 654. 6 South African Police Service (2017) 7 South African Police Service (2017) 8 South African Police Service (2018). 2 Research Unit: SAPS Provincial Budget Allocation 2018/19
In 2018/19, Gauteng once again receives the highest allocation of R12 176 857 000 (an increase of R 774 956 000 compared to 2017/18). The second highest allocation went to KwaZulu-Natal with R9 210 455 000 (an increase of R 711 471 000 compared to 2017/18). The third highest allocation went to the Western Cape with R 7 316 481 000 (an increase of R 590 003 000 compared to 2017/18). The Eastern Cape received the fourth highest allocation in 2018/19, namely R7 083 866 000 (an increase of R 475 599 000 compared to 2017/18).
2.1 OPERATIONAL BREAKDOWN 2013/14 – 2017/18
Only operational funding is physically allocated to provincial commissioners for the management of operational expenditure in their respective provinces.
The provinces with the highest provincial allocations (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape) also have the highest operational budgets. For the first time, KwaZulu-Natal’s operational budget exceeds R1 billion.
2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/179 2017/1810 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Western Cape 700 025 693 746 711 558 725 762 998 766 648 000 Northern Cape 263 351 264 520 271 461 270 581 685 301 020 000 Free State 412 103 412 679 423 227 430 275 672 465 200 000 Eastern Cape 740 608 739 460 759 026 776 207 439 824 890 000 KwaZulu-Natal 955 916 950 841 974 482 994 971 160 1 070 332 000 Mpumalanga 374 812 376 642 386 236 390 768 626 426 962 000 Limpopo 473 192 476 934 489 257 490 275 011 531 959 000 Gauteng 1 287 665 1 252 477 1 284 255 1 272 681 775 1 393 252 000 North West 429 835 431 092 442 773 439 473 348 489 331 000
Comments
SAPS indicated on 9 April 2018 that the current allocated staff establishment at police stations of 120 475, (a) will not be affected by the reduction in the compensation budget of the SAPS and (b) will be increased by filling the 7 000 vacant posts at police stations caused by the re-establishment of specialised units.11
SAPS should also provide information on (a) its progress regarding the reinstatement of specialised crime fighting units like the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual
9 South African Police Service (2017) 10 South African Police Service (2017) 11 South African Police Service (2018) 3 Research Unit: SAPS Provincial Budget Allocation 2018/19
Offences (FCS) at police stations to address the high crime rates, and (b) how much of the operational budgets will be utilised for this purpose.
3. CONSTRUCTION AND PLANNED MAINTENANCE OF POLICE STATIONS ALLOCATION IN 2018/19 (INCLUDING SECURITY / PERIMETER FENCING)
Construction and maintenance of police stations comes from the SAPS national Capital Works budget. In 2018/19, an amount of R822.2 million was ring-fenced for the building and upgrading of police stations.
SAPS provided the following information in respect of its 2018/19 Capital Works allocation, which includes installing or upgrading security measures like perimeter fencing.
CATEGORY AMOUNT Capital Works: Annual Performance Plan 2018/2019 25 582 239 Capital Works: Building Programme 2018/2019 132 454 793 Planned Maintenance: Annual Performance Plan 2018/2019 10 600 000 Planned Maintenance: Building Programme 2018/2019 51 900 000 Grand Total 220 537 032
COMMENTS
SAPS should elaborate more on the type of maintenance / security upgrades planned for the listed stations below and the motivation for each.
3.1 POLICE STATIONS PRIORITISED FOR CONSTRUCTION AND PLANNED MAINTENANCE PER PROVINCE
NO PROVINCE STATION AMOUNT 1 Eastern Cape Afsondering 1 300 000 2 Indwe 4 000 000 3 Huku 10 000 000 4 Katkop 600 000
5 Mdeni 10 000 000
6 Moyeni 4 000 000
7 Mthombe 10 000 000 8 Mqanduli 3 500 000 9 Ntamonde 10 000 000
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NO PROVINCE STATION AMOUNT 10 Eastern Cape Pholile 1 363 879 11 Qhasa 4 500 000 12 Tabase 10 000 000 13 Tafalehashe 10 000 000 14 Tshiame (Makgolokweng) 4 000 000 15 Free State Tweeling 4 000 000 16 Ennerdale 6 960 063 Gauteng Tshwane College 17 19 000 000 (Pretoria West) 18 Dondotha 8 000 000 19 Kwa-Nocomboshe 8 000 000 20 KwaZulu-Natal Mtunzini 6 000 000 21 Nsuze 4 000 000 22 Osuthu 8 000 000 23 Port Edward 6 000 000 24 Bandelierkop 2 000 000 25 Makuya 3 000 000 26 Limpopo Muyexe 4 500 000 27 Phaudi 5 000 000 28 Thabazimbi 1 500 000 29 Zaaiplaas 500 000 30 Mpumalanga Kwamhlushwa 3 582 239 31 Kanana 5 000 000 32 North West Mareetsane 5 130 851 33 Northern Cape Riemvasmaak 4 000 000 34 Gans Bay 1 000 000 35 Lutzville 1 200 000 36 Malmesbury 6 800 000 37 Western Cape Mowbray 1 500 000 38 PA Hamlet 2 000 000 39 Uniondale 1 000 000 40 Table View 6 000 000 41 Wynberg 3 000 000
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COMMENTS
In 2017, there was a public outcry in the Western Cape over the more than R100 million upgrade planned for Muizenberg police station while areas on the Cape Flats with much higher crime rates were not prioritised.12 The funds were later channelled elsewhere. The SAPS should provide a detailed breakdown on the utilisation of these funds. In addition, to avoid similar situations, SAPS should provide more information on the extent and type of security upgrades planned for the listed stations and motivate why these stations were prioritised. In an attack on the Ngcobo police station in the Eastern Cape, 5 police officers and an off- duty soldier were killed on 20 February 2018. The attackers stole 10 firearms and a police vehicle from a station that were later used in the robbery of a nearby ATM. The bold attack by the heavily armed group on the police station highlighted the vulnerability of unsecured police stations and rural communities, as well as the proliferation both legal and illegal guns in society to which criminals have easy access. In a media statement condemning the attack on 21 February 2018, the Select Committee on Security and Justice called on the SAPS to urgently address security at police stations, and noted that police stations in the Free State and Khayelitsha had also come under attack by armed gangs in 2017. Ngcobo is not on the list of Eastern Cape police stations prioritised for security upgrades in 2018/19 – why not? The SAPS was urged to also urgently; (a) address ATM robberies as Ngcobo police and the police station also came under attack in March 2017 by approximately 15 armed robbers while robbing a Standard Bank ATM, (b) ensure effective implementation of the Firearms Control Act of 2000, tighten firearms control measures and root out fraud and corruption among police officials in the gun licensing process to prevent the loss, theft and sale of legal confiscated and surrendered guns to criminals; and (c) allocate adequate and proper resources to police stations in line with the President’s 2018 SONA. The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police has also called for the installation of CCTV cameras at all police stations.13 In some areas with high crime rates, like Site B in Khayelitsha, residents complained that the CCTV cameras were not working.14 The two biggest amounts in the Western Cape are allocated to the: o Malmesbury (R6 800 000) and o Table View (R6 000 000) police stations. SAPS should provide more information on the upgrades planned for these stations.
12 Koyana, X (2017). 13 Sifile, L (2018). 14 News24 (2017). Organisations Present Stats on Lack of Policing in Khayelitsha. , 20 JUL 2017. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-07-20-organisations-present-stats-on-lack-of-policing-in- khayelitsha?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Thing%2020%20July%202017%20Exchange&utm_cont ent=Afternoon%20Thing%2020%20July%202017%20Exchange+CID_9cb869527ab7ea2fcc2d064cb02be2c0&utm_sour ce=TouchBasePro&utm_term=State%20of%20police%20vacuum%20in%20Khayelitsha%20updated#.WXg-hIh96Uk. 6 Research Unit: SAPS Provincial Budget Allocation 2018/19
3.2 POLICE RESOURCING: EQUALITY COURT CASE CHALLENGING SAPS THEORETICAL HUMAN RESOURCE REQUIREMENT
The resourcing of police stations is a contentious issue as demonstrated by the findings of the 2014 Khayelitsha Commission of Enquiry into the breakdown of relationships between the Khayelitsha community and the SAPS; and recently the Social Justice Coalition’s presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Police in March 2018, which showed that “predominantly white areas with very low contact [crime] rates have far more police officers…than poor, predominantly black areas with high contact crime rates”.15
The Social Justice Coalition called for a review of the (a) Theoretical Human Resource Requirement, and (b) powers afforded to Provincial Commissioners under the South African Police Service Act 68 of 1995, relating to resourcing.
In 2016, the Coalition, together with Equal Education, challenged the SAPS Theoretical Human Resource Requirement system in the Equality Court,16 on the grounds that (a) the system“broadly guides the actual allocations throughout the country [and thus] perpetuates this pattern of discrimination nationally; (b) “SAPS fails to factor in the incidence of under-reporting, which is not uniform across police precincts, when allocating human resources” and (c) “Section 12 (3) powers of the [South African Police Service Act, 1995] afforded to Provincial Commissioners is misunderstood, limited in practice and seldom used”.17
The applicants therefore asked the Court for an order:
The applicants, now joined by the Nyanga Community Police Forum, also asked the Court to order the National and Provincial Commissioners to re-evaluate the system of allocating human resources and put in place national and provincial plans “for the reallocation of resources within the Western Cape to address the most serious disparities in the allocation of police human resources in the provinces”.
The applicants used the crime rate and population ratios of Nyanga (one of the top 10 stations with the highest crime rates in South Africa) and Cape Town Central Police Station to demonstrate the disparities in police resourcing: although Nyanga’s police to population ratio was 1:623 compared to Cape Town Central’s1:59 (for every 100 000 people), it received less resources.
15 Social Justice Coalition (2018). 16 Social Justice Coalition and Equal Education v Minister of Police EC 03/2016 17 Social Justice Coalition (2018). 7 Research Unit: SAPS Provincial Budget Allocation 2018/19
When using the crime rate as an indicator of which police station should get more resources, it becomes clear that more police resources (human and other resources) are allocated to police stations with lower crime rates in predominantly white areas, compared to those like Nyanga on the Cape Flats (predominantly poor, black communities) with very high crime rates.
NYANGA CT CENTRAL
SERIOUS CONTACT CRIMES 1: 623 1: 59
Murder 281 11
Sexual offences 356 47
Attempted murder 183 9
Assault GBH 1071 190
Robbery with aggravating circumstances 1498 657
The Social Justice case before the Equality Court resumed on 14 and 15 February 2018, and is still ongoing.
SAPS provided the following information to indicate how its provincial allocations will give effect to the President’s statement in his 2018 SONA that more resources will be allocated to police stations:18
The current allocated staff establishment at police stations of 120 475 will not be affected by the reduction in the compensation budget of the SAPS.
The planned allocated staff establishment at police stations for 2018/19 is 61,98%. It is expected to grow, through the implementation of regionalisation, to 65% in 2021 (by inter alia increasing the annual intake for basic police trainees and abolishing certain management posts, through work reorganisation).
Annual enlistment continues in 2018/19 (to replace annual staff losses due to natural attrition).
Fill 7 000 vacant posts at police stations caused by the re-establishment of specialised units.
Decentralise all identified national units operating at local level (approximately 6 000 members) and place them under the command of station or cluster commanders, i.e. Railway Police, identified Ports of Entry, Crime Intelligence and other uniformed functional members, identified through rationalisation.
18 SAPS (2018). Response to request for information, 9 April 2018. 8 Research Unit: SAPS Provincial Budget Allocation 2018/19
3.2 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIREARMS CONTROL ACT, 200019
A recent study by the South African Medical Research Council on homicides involving a firearm, confirm that the number of people injured or killed by firearms increased dramatically between 2010 and 2016, after it had steadily declined after the Firearms Act came into operation in 2000.
The deaths of 1 066 people (including 261 children) on the Cape Flats coincided with the selling of approximately 2 000 firearms and ammunition meant for destruction (worth R9 million) to gangsters on the Cape Flats by two corrupt senior police officers who were convicted in 2016 on racketeering charges.20
Following the Ngcobo shooting in February 2018, the Select Committee on Security and Justice called on the SAPS to ensure implementation of the Firearms Control Act of 2000, tighten firearms control measures and root out fraud and corruption among police officials in the gun licensing process to prevent the loss, theft and sale of legal confiscated and surrendered guns to criminals.
Overall, the firearms control budget allocation to provinces amounts to an average of R16 500 000.00 (the table below reflects average amounts).
Allocations are informed by the number of firearms provinces will likely receive - those receiving more firearms receive bigger budget allocations.
Budget allocations cover items that will assist in the identification and proper categorisation of firearms and enhance their processing, namely:
o Process and procedure have been developed and will form part of the work-shopping of the Designated Firearms Officers (DFOs); o Exhibit Management Tools (e.g. SAPS 13 Tags, red cable ties, exhibit bags); o Remarking for identification (e.g. engraving equipment) o Integrated Ballistic Information System (IBIS) (e.g. non-standardised ammunition, ear protection and goggles).
19 South African Police Service (2018) 20 Thamm, M (2018). 9 Research Unit: SAPS Provincial Budget Allocation 2018/19
The following amounts are budgeted, per province, to tighten firearms control measures and root out fraud and corruption among police officials in the gun licencing process to prevent the loss, theft and sale to criminals of legal confiscated and surrendered guns.
PROVINCE AVERAGE AMOUNT
Eastern Cape R 2 500 000,00
North West R 1 300 000,00
Gauteng R 2 500 000,00
KwaZulu-Natal R 2 500 000,00
Free State R 1 300 000,00
Mpumalanga R 1 300 000,00
Northern Cape R 1 300 000,00
Limpopo R 1 300 000,00
Western Cape R 2 500 000,00
TOTAL R 16 500 000,00
4. CONCLUSION
While the 2018/19 provincial allocations show nominal increases, more information is needed on how these allocations will be utilised at station level. In particular, the SAPS should also indicate how it will (a) address resource deficiencies in predominantly poor, black communities with high crime rates and (b) improve measures for more effective implementation of the Firearms Control Act, 2000. SAPS should also provide progress regarding the (i) reinstatement of specialised crime fighting units like the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) at police stations to address the high crime rates and (ii) filling of vacant posts at police station level.
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5. SOURCES
Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of Police Inefficiency and a Breakdown in Relations between SAPS and the Community of Khayelitsha (2014). Towards a Safer Khayelitsha - August 2014. Final Report. Available at http://www.khayelitshacommission.org.za/final-report.html. Accessed 9 April 2018.
Koyana, X (2017). Muizenberg Police Station Upgrade Plans Put on Hold Following Uproar. 21 June 2017. Eye Witness News. Available at http://ewn.co.za/2017/06/21/muizenberg-police-station-upgrade-plans-put-on- hold-following-uproar. Accessed 5 April 2018.04.05
Minister of Police (2015). Written Reply. Question 4045. Internal Question Paper No 49-2015.
National Treasury (2018). Estimates of National Expenditure. Police Budget Vote 23
News24 (2017). Organisations Present Stats on Lack of Policing in Khayelitsha. , 20 JUL 2017. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-07-20-organisations-present-stats-on-lack-of-policing-in- khayelitsha?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Thing%2020%20July%202017%20Exchang e&utm_content=Afternoon%20Thing%2020%20July%202017%20Exchange+CID_9cb869527ab7ea2fcc2d0 64cb02be2c0&utm_source=TouchBasePro&utm_term=State%20of%20police%20vacuum%20in%20Khayelit sha%20updated#.WXg-hIh96Uk.
Parliament of South Africa (2018). Media Statement. Security and Justice Select Committee Wants Security at Police Stations Urgently Addressed. 22 February 2018.
Social Justice Coalition (2018). Presentation to the Portfolio Committee pf Police. 13 March 2018.
South African Police Service (2018). Response to Request for information - 2018/19 SAPS provincial budget allocation. 28 March 2018.
South African Police Service (2018). Response to Request for information - 2018/19 SAPS provincial budget allocation. 9 April 2018.
South African Police Service (2017). Response to request for information, Taking Parliament to the People Gauteng 2018. 11 December 2017.
Sifile, L (2018). Six die in a brutal police station attack. IOL News. 21 February 2018. Available at https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/six-die-in-a-brutal-police-station-attack-13398231. Accessed 5 April 2018.
Thamm, M (2018). The Killing Fields: How illegal firearms turned the Cape Flats into a war zone. 4 April 2018. The Daily Maverick. Available at https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-04-04-the-killing-fields-how- illegal-firearms-turned-the-cape-flats-into-a-war-zone/?utm_source=RecommendWidget#.WsR1a4huaUk. Accessed 6 April 2018.
Van Zyl-Gous, N (2018). Overview of the Police Portfolio Budget 2018/19. Research Unit. Knowledge and Information Division. Parliament of South Africa. 11 Research Unit: SAPS Provincial Budget Allocation 2018/19