Police Oversight and Community Safety
With respect to the number of detectives in the Western Cape:
(a) How many were deployed in each police cluster in (i) 2018/19, (ii) 2019/20, (iii) 2020/21, (iv) 2021/22 and (v) 2022/23 to date, (b) what were the main reasons for the resignation of detectives since 2018/19 in each police cluster and (c) what programmes, initiatives or campaigns are in place to increase the number of detectives in the Western Cape?
[1] [a] [i] [ii] [iii] [iv] [v]
|
Cluster |
2018/2019 |
2019/2020 |
2020/2021 |
2021/2022 |
2022/06/30 |
|
Beaufort West |
42 |
41 |
41 |
43 |
44 |
|
Blue Downs |
226 |
236 |
214 |
227 |
228 |
|
Cape Town |
227 |
203 |
184 |
183 |
168 |
|
Da Gamaskop |
90 |
93 |
94 |
96 |
95 |
|
Eden |
237 |
238 |
233 |
224 |
223 |
|
Khayelitsha |
231 |
230 |
217 |
222 |
218 |
|
Milnerton |
144 |
144 |
134 |
146 |
140 |
|
Mitchells Plain |
299 |
287 |
276 |
308 |
293 |
|
Nyanga |
289 |
292 |
295 |
293 |
271 |
|
Overberg |
101 |
100 |
101 |
106 |
102 |
|
Tygerberg |
228 |
219 |
209 |
205 |
196 |
|
Vredenburg |
72 |
72 |
70 |
63 |
62 |
|
Vredendal |
50 |
54 |
49 |
51 |
55 |
|
Winelands |
188 |
191 |
192 |
183 |
170 |
|
Worcester |
181 |
170 |
167 |
171 |
169 |
|
Wynberg |
187 |
182 |
179 |
175 |
153 |
|
|
2792 |
2752 |
2655 |
2696 |
2587 |
[b] The main reasons for the resignation of detectives are due to poor health, age, career opportunities with better remuneration, starting their own business, the nature of their work and insufficient opportunities for promotion.
[c] Detectives are selected at the training colleges through the detective psychometric assessment. The detective environment is also capacitated from the Vispol environment through surveys of interest and the re-enlisting of former detectives.
