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Last week, Police Minister Bheki Cele stated that the province had the most resources with the lion’s share of support, but Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said that that was not the case.
Police minister Bheki Cele's failure to consider the Western Cape's Department of Community Safety's tabling of a yearly Policing Needs and Priorities every year is tantamount to constitutional failure, writes Reagen Allen.
The Western Cape government has threatened to launch an intergovernmental dispute over policing resource constraints.
According to the annual report, there is a shortage of 548 detectives in the province, and one detective deals with between 40 and 60 cases.
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has painted a grim picture of policing in the province, revealing a shortage of officers and saying that it's common for the province's 150 police precincts to have "too few boots on the ground". Winde and Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz were presenting the findings of the provincial government's Policing Needs and Priorities (PNP) report in a digital briefing on Thursday.