police Oversight and Community Safety
58% of the budget for safety is being allocated to the provincial policing function:
(a) What (i) activities and (ii) functions fall under provincial policing and (b)(i) how many LEAP officers are on active duty and (ii) where are they stationed?
(a) (i) The activities undertaken to advance this mandate are implemented through
key programmes, including Peace Officer training support, the Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP), the establishment of a Law Enforcement Rural Safety Unit at municipalities, and the establishment and support of municipal K9 units.
Additional activities are carried out through the Community Resilience Programme, the Street Coach and Safety Observatory, and Project Chrysalis Academy. These programmes support community-based safety initiatives, youth development, violence prevention, and evidence-based safety planning and monitoring.
This programme also includes the Western Cape Police Ombudsman.
(ii) The purpose of this programme is to give effect to the constitutional mandate of provinces in promoting good relations between communities and the police through a Whole-Of-Society Approach, and to ensure that all policing service delivery complaints in the province are dealt with independently and effectively.
Through these programmes, the province continues to strengthen municipal law enforcement capacity, build safer and more resilient communities, improve cooperation between communities and the police, and ensure that policing service-delivery complaints are dealt with effectively and independently.
(b) (i) There are 1091 officials within LEAP on active duty. 9 senior officers are responsible for command and control and 953 operationally active officials are deployed into 6 priority SAPS station precincts and a Roving reaction unit supporting 3 areas (Hanover Park, Manenberg and Elsies River). Additionally, a contingent of 129 LEAP officials performs support/back-office duties for the operational detachments.
(ii) LEAP officers are stationed as follows:
- Priority SAPS stations supported:
Nyanga: 121
Gugulethu: 129
Khayelitsha: 127
Mitchells Plain: 126
Philippi East: 184
Delft: 129
- LEAP Reaction Unit: 137
- Support/ Back-office duties (Armouries, Control Room, workforce planning, CCTV and administration): 129
- LEAP Command and Control: 9
