SAPS spend more than R100k on catering every day
29 September 2016
The SAPS Annual Report for 2015/16 has revealed that our police service spent more than R100 000 on catering every single day.
The report, released today, shows that R39.5 million was spent on Catering for Departmental activities during the 2015/16 financial year.
This exorbitant amount is shameful, especially when one takes into account the chronic state of under-resourcing of police stations across South Africa. The SAPS is characterised by the four U’s, being under-resourced, under-staffed, under-equipped and under-trained, which have a direct impact on their ability to carry out their mandate of keeping South Africans safe. Not only are there usually too few operational officers at station level, but they are also short of the basic equipment, such as vehicles, radios, and protective gear to carry out their jobs.
This money could have gone a long way to addressing this woeful state of affairs in our police service, one on which millions of South Africans rely to keep them safe.