Police Oversight and Community Safety
With reference to his reply to question 5 of 22 July 2022:
(a) How many service dogs did each of the aforementioned K9 units have in (i) 2018/19, (ii) 2019/20, (iii) 2020/21, (iv) 2021/22 and (v) 2022/23 and (b) what are the reasons for the budgetary decreases between 2018/19 and 2022/23?
1. [a] [i] [ii] [iii] [iv] [v]
|
Unit |
2018/2019 |
2019/2020 |
2020/2021 |
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
|
Cape Town |
39 |
31 |
33 |
28 |
29 |
|
Boland |
14 |
14 |
16 |
15 |
17 |
|
West Coast |
7 |
8 |
6 |
6 |
7 |
|
Namaqualand |
8 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
5 |
|
Breede River |
14 |
15 |
13 |
12 |
12 |
|
Overberg |
9 |
7 |
7 |
6 |
6 |
|
Central Karoo |
7 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
Outeniqua |
11 |
9 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
|
Tsitsikamma |
9 |
6 |
6 |
4 |
5 |
|
Langeberg |
8 |
9 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
|
Attaqua |
15 |
13 |
9 |
7 |
8 |
|
Total |
141 |
126 |
112 |
96 |
103 |
[b] The budgetary adjustments were due to:
- baseline adjustments to units, taken into account spending patterns of the relevant units
- new baseline reductions introduced on the Vote: Policing
- budgetary needs of the units
- cost containment measures factored into the costing of lower level expenditure line items to reduce spending levels.
