Community Safety
(1) (a) What oversight mechanisms does the Department have over the recruitment, training and deployment of LEAP officers and (b) how many reports does the Department get from the City annually;
(2) (a) what is the total breakdown of the expenditure on the LEAP programme in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021 and (iv) 2022 to date and (b) what are the details of the (i) expenditure items and (ii) cost per unit?
4. (1)(a) The Department and the City of Cape Town (COCT) instituted regular meetings as well as a reporting mechanism to facilitate oversight of the LEAP programme. These engagements were formalised with the development of the LEAP Governance Framework which was developed and implemented as an oversight mechanism, in the following ways:
- Operational Steercom Meeting (COCT and DOCS).
- COCT submitting weekly and monthly operational reports.
- Quarterly reconciliation conducted by DOCS on the number of LEAP officers deployed.
- COCT complies a bi-annual Progress report.
(b) The table below indicates the number of reports from the 2020/21 financial year, as that was the year in which LEAP was introduced to the APP.
|
Year |
Number of Operational Meetings |
Number of TPA Bi – annual Reports & Financial report |
Amount of Monthly Civics reports |
Number of Weekly Reports |
|
2020/2021 |
5 |
3 |
12 |
50 |
|
2021/2022 |
19 |
1 |
8 |
52 |
(2)(a) (i) 2019/20 - R 134,234,585.14
|
Cost Item |
Total Expenditure |
|
|
|
|
Salary Related Costs |
R69,627,793.01 |
|
|
|
|
Operational Costs |
R15,428,213.48 |
|
|
|
|
Capital Costs |
R49,178,578.65 |
(iii) 2020/21 - R 307,132,242.83
|
Cost Item |
Total Expenditure |
|
|
|
|
Salary Related Costs |
R 241,166,718.55 |
|
|
|
|
Operational Costs |
R 21,693,601.21 |
|
|
|
|
Capital Costs |
R 44,271,923.07 |
(iv) 2021/22 (at 31 January 2022) - R138,403,245.63
|
Cost Item |
Total Expenditure |
|
|
|
|
Salary Related Costs |
R104,507,744.64 |
|
|
|
|
Operational Costs |
R 13,804,853.86 |
|
|
|
|
Capital Costs |
R 20,090,647.13 |
(b) (i) See attached Annexure A
(ii) The estimated Learner Law Enforcement Officer (LLEO) unit cost, as contained in the approved Business Plan of the City of Cape Town, is R580 231 for year 1 and R434 715 for year 2 and 3. The reason for the difference is that in year 1 the LLEO received 3 months of focused training compared to shorter refresher training provided in subsequent years and secondly, the equipment cost in year 1 is significantly higher than subsequent years (equipment includes: uniforms, firearms, radios, EPIC devices, vehicles etc.).
The actual unit costs per LLEO per year was requested from the City of Cape Town and once received, it will be submitted.
