Premier

With reference to his address at the opening of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in which he said that LEAP officers had made more than 34 000 arrests since the launch of the programme:

1. What is the (a) number of arrests, by crime category, for each of the LEAP priority areas and (b) impact of LEAP officers on communities where the murder rate has increased over the past four years since LEAP officers had been deployed in those areas;
2. seeing that the Western Cape Safety Plan states that “addressing spatial inequality and the lack of social cohesion in our communities are further important dimensions of the Western Cape Safety Plan”, how has the Western Cape Government addressed (a) spatial inequality and (b) social cohesion;
3. in terms of the ministerial responsibilities to address “safety priorities”, as set out in Chapter 7 of the Western Cape Safety Plan, what was achieved to date by each of the Ministers measured against the identified “safety priorities”;
4. given that the Western Cape Safety Plan’s interventions are “knowledge-driven”, (a) what work has each department conducted to plan, document and evaluate the various interventions upon which they embark to assess whether the metrics associated with each safety priority are on track towards being met and (b)(i) why, (ii) where and (iii) how;
5. whether there is a document with the work in (4) above available; if so, can a copy be made available;
6. given the Western Cape Safety Plan’s recognition that data and information may “necessitate a change of focus, interventions and/or operational framework” and is “open to adaptation based on results”, what data and information have been recorded since the implementation Western Cape Safety Plan;
7. whether this data and information have necessitated any change in focus, interventions or operational framework; if so, what are the relevant details;
8. whether the Western Cape Safety Plan has been adapted or updated since it was adopted; if not, why not; if so, can a copy be made available?