Community Safety

Question by: 
Hon Reagen Allen
Answered by: 
Hon Albert Fritz
Question Number: 
3
Question Body: 

(a) How many clandestine manufacturing drug laboratories have been shut down in the province in (i) 2014/15, (ii) 2015/16, (iii) 2016/17, (iv) 2017/18, (v) 2018/19 and (vi) 2019/20 to date, (b) how many drug dens have been discovered and shut down over the same period, (c) how often have confiscated illicit substances been destroyed over the same period and (d) how many substances have gone missing from SAPS storage after having been confiscated over the same period?

Answer Body: 

            (a)  (i)     5

                  (ii)     5

      (iii)     6

      (iv)     4

      (v)      6

      (vi)     4

(b)  (i)      23

      (ii)      21

      (iii)     8

      (iv)     8

      (v)      9

      (vi)     6

(c)    Destruction is done by the forensic laboratory after the finalisation of the cases. 

(d)    No losses from SAPS storage has been reported.

Date: 
Friday, October 18, 2019
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