Deputy Chair, the Department of Police, men and women in blue are placing their lives in danger on a daily basis to put bread on the table. The department's purpose is to prevent and combat and investigate crime, maintain public order, protect and secure the inhabitants of South Africa and their properties and uphold and enforce the law.
Crime in South Africa is at all time high. The following are just a few statistics for the year 2018-19 that the National Treasury might have overlooked when they cut the Police budget. About 1,3 million incidents of house breaking occurred that reflected more than
900 000 households in South Africa. An estimated 264 000 incidents of home robberies occurred. A total of 69 896 incidents of delivery damaging, burning or destruction of residential dwellings affecting 53 000 households occurred. Just think how many children were traumatised by that. An estimated 1,24 million incidents of theft of personal properties occurred. According to a United Nations report that was conducted in South Africa, only 35% of the whole population