6.1.3 Departmental response and response by the Director-General of the Department of Public Works: With regard to the PPP, the National Commissioner noted that soon after he was appointed he had been given a document to sign, containing details and costs of building a new head office for the SAPS, using PPP, to be constructed on a plot near the Department of Correctional Services' building in Pretoria. He had requested further information, and had not signed the document, as, in his opinion, this money would be better spent on building more police stations, than on building a new head office. The matter was not raised with him again.