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News24 reports that the Western Cape Government has declared a formal dispute with Minister of Police Bheki Cele, accusing him of ignoring the provinces policing needs.
In a statement on Sunday, community safety MEC Alan Winde said the formal intergovernmental dispute had been declared because of the disregard of urgent policing needs and priorities, which had been brought to Cele’s attention six months ago. "The Minister of Police is obliged by the Constitution to consult and take account of the specific needs of our province when determining policy. By ignoring these needs and priorities, Minister Cele is violating the Constitution," Winde indicated. He said that the province urgently needed more police officers and that the service in the Western Cape police was dramatically under resourced compared to other provinces, where the national average was that one officer protected 375 people while in the Western Cape the ratio was one officer to 509 persons. Winde also said that the Western Cape had offered the SA Police Services R5 million to pay for police reservists to be deployed in the province as well as provincial government volunteers to take on administrative duties at police stations, but the minister had ignored these offers.
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