Mobility
(1) Whether there are any (a) shortages of and (b) vacancies for traffic officers in the province; if so, what are the relevant details;
(2) what (a) are the details of the vacancies for traffic officers and (b) is the budget for traffic officers (i) per municipalities and (ii) in the province;
(3) what are his Department’s plans to increase the number of traffic officers in the province?
[1] Provincial Traffic Services currently has 430 provincial traffic inspectors appointed based on the current approved staff establishment of 430. However, vehicle and human population increases and the requirements of constant improvement in traffic safety have meant Provincial Traffic is undergoing an organisational development process in order to determine an appropriate increase in the size of the service.
The service is being expanded to meet the province’s growing service delivery requirements.
The Department is currently being restructured and therefore additional growth will occur in the context of the establishment of a new Mobility Department. Identification of further growth targets is thus in abeyance.
[2][a] See [1]above.
[b] [i]The safety and security budgets of district and local municipalities are published annually. They vary greatly from authority to authority and include related services other than traffic, such as municipal law enforcement and disaster risk management. The total budget specifically allocated to traffic officers across the 30 municipalities is therefore not known.
[ii] The total budget for Program 5.4 Law Enforcement in 2022/23 is R442 098 000.
[3] See [1] above.
