It is the view of the Committee that the reduction of crime mainly depends on members of the Police response and visibility together with the involvement of society at large. In its annual report, the Department of Police indicated that part of the challenges the Department is facing include the court case backlog, prisons overcrowding, high proportion of violent crime, as well as high rate of recidivism. The Committee supports an additional funding over the MTEF which seeks to expand detective services, crime intelligence and crime prevention particularly in local stations and the proposed increase of Police members from 200 660 to 203 025 by 2014/15. Part of the capacity expansion over the MTEF, will be to increase the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) to 650 members by 2013/14 to fight corruption. The Committees welcomes this move since the fight against crime and corruption is one of the government priorities for five years.