Western Cape MEC wants to know how much budgeted for special police units
Western Cape Minister of Community Safety Dan Plato has called on the national minister of police‚ Nathi Nhleko‚ to urgently release details of the budget amount allocated for specialised units. Plato charged that both his and President Jacob Zuma’s promises over the last year remain unfulfilled.Plato said on Sunday that the 5.8% increase (R4.8bn) for police services announced by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in his budget speech was really nothing more than an inflation-linked increase and included no reference to the new and much needed Specialised Drug and Gun Units announced by President Zuma during his State of the Nation reply. “Without adequate budget allocation for the new specialised drug and gun units‚ these units will remain a pipe dream while the people of the Western Cape continue to be killed by gangsters. “Minister Nhleko needs to urgently provide the details about the new units’ implementation as the implications for the units not being up and running are a matter of life and death‚” Plato asserted...
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