I explained hon member that, besides the police, we have a special unit, the FCS. The job of the FCS is to deal with the sexual abuse - that is rape, especially of children. We have 185 units based in different police stations in South Africa. We are working hard to expand that. We have almost 1 200 police stations in the Republic of South Africa. We would love that every station should have this unit, but also, we are further training more female officers to handle these cases at station level.
I always imagine how painful it is for a female to go and report to the male how she was raped. I think it is the most traumatising experience because for the case to proceed, a female victim would really have to explain and be graphic about it and if you are explaining that to the man when you have just been ... So, we are ensuring that we train as much as we can more female officers so that they are able to be at the front desk to receive these traumatised and abused women. One other thing that we are working on is the conditions at the police stations. We are creating some kind
of private area where people can be interviewed at most of the police stations that are being built now, even those existing ones.
We are also creating a one-night kind of stop; we are putting beds and toys for kids in them so that if a woman is abused at around 11 pm or 12 midnight, we can be able to keep her at a police station to be handed over to the relevant bodies like the developmental sexual trauma, DST, and other the next day. So, we are really trying to work hard, for example, the past two years the Budget Vote speech of the Police is dedicated to the wellbeing and welfare of the women in South Africa. That is why we are pushing very hard to improve these conditions and that women are taken care of. And that is why there are more than 4 000 individuals given life sentences for sexual violence against women.