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789 MONDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2008
790
● is an independent contractor
working as a consultant,
or
● is an independent labour
broker providing con-
(2)
sultants to departments.
● The above include items for
the 2005-06, 2006-07 and
2007-08 financial years such
as:
— Mechanical services
— Cleaning services
— Internal audit
— Day labourers, special escorts
and matrons, etc.
In absence of a universally accepted
definition regarding consultants per se,
and if the aforementioned is taken as
demarcation, the viewpoint is held that
the Department of Safety and Security
has none or at least very few consultants.
Yes.
(a) The primary objective towards the
appointment of one former employee
as a consultant during the
2007-08 financial year was to
optimise the structuring and organisation
of the department, to
strengthen the capacity to combat
organised crime as well as to
improve the effectiveness of policing
and crime combating at local
level.
(b) The services of the employee was
terminated as a result of early
retirement.
Inspection of police stations
1471. Ms D KOHLER-BARNARD (DA)
asked the Minister of Safety and Security:
(a) How many police stations in each
province (i) were inspected for com-
pliance in accordance with the Occupational
Health and Safety Act, Act
85 of 1993, in each of the past three
years and (ii) were assessed as (aa)
compliant and (bb) noncompliant,
(b) what were the findings for each
police station in terms of each regulation
in the Act, (c) what standard
procedures are followed if a station
is assessed as being noncompliant in
terms of the Act and (d) what action
has been taken to date to ensure
compliance at each of the stations
that were assessed as being noncompliant?
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The MINISTER OF SAFETY AND
SECURITY:
(a) (i) The total number of stations that
were inspected for compliance in
accordance with the Occupational
Health and Safety Act are reflected
below:
● Eastern Cape 48
● Free State 11
● Gauteng 24
● Head Office 20
● KwaZulu-Natal 23
● Limpopo 35
● Mpumalanga 23
● Northern Cape 110
● North West 121
● Western Cape 54
(ii) (aa) The total number of police stations
that were assessed as compliant
in each of the provinces
are:
● Eastern Cape 1
● Free State 0
● Gauteng 0
● Head Office 2