25 Oct 2011
The Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa today stressed the need for police officers to efficiently utilise their tools of trade effectively, including police vehicles in the fight against crime; in order to optimally achieve their objectives.
The Minister made this call as reference to a Parliamentary reply on the optimal and current number of police vehicles for each police station in each province across the country. Police vehicles are State-properties and should at all times be effectively utilised by police officers.
“During our on-going public participation programme, the most common issue raised by communities is the perceived lack of speedily response by police when called to report to crime callouts. In some instance this is as a result of the lack of resources, including vehicles but in other instances, it is purely a management system in terms of administrating these vehicles,” stated the Minister.
“We have been emphasising to SAPS management the aspect of equitable distribution of resources, including vehicles, but more importantly to ensure that these are used to serve communities. To this end we also want to emphasise that those who abuse such resources, that stricter and harsher measures are taken against them.
We cannot provide communities with excuses when it comes to fighting crime, it is our conviction, our duty to serve and we have to do it smarter and faster,” concluded Minster Mthethwa.
Below is a table of police vehicles per province with their actual number of active vehicles as on August this year. In his reply, he stated that the numbers exclude specialised units placed at station level.
The South African Police Service in a process to compile issuing criteria which will determine per function the number of vehicles per members (optimal). The department is also in a process to develop allocation criteria which will address the type of vehicle to be allocated to specific geographical areas.
| Province | Current Active Vehicles as per the Asset Register on 31/08/2011 |
| Eastern Cape | 3843 |
| Free State | 1848 |
| Gauteng | 5524 |
| KwaZulu- Natal | 4357 |
| Limpopo | 2659 |
| Mpumalanga | 1410 |
| North West | 1446 |
| Northern Cape | 985 |
| Western Cape | 4436 |
For enquiries, please contact:
Zweli Mnisi
Cell: 082 045 4024
Issued by: South African Police Service
25 Oct 2011
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