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Original Post Date: 2008-12-13 Time: 09:00:14 Posted By: Jan
The scale of government’s paranoia over crime has been laid bare with fresh revelations that half a billion rand of taxpayers’ money was given to private security firms to protect police stations, government departments and courts last year.
The startling figures are contained in the response to a series of parliamentary questions by the DA and show that the combined total expenditure by 18 departments for outsourced security was R831,2 million between 2005 and 2007.
A closer analysis of the figures shows that the cost of private security protection in 2007 alone totalled R431,2 million.
This was R176 million or a 69% increase in the cost of private security in 2006 when the same 18 departments spent R255 million.
Ironically, most of the money went to protect departments involved in the fight against crime and involved in the holding of prisoners.
DA spokesperson on Safety and Security, Dianne Kohler Barnard said 16 out of the 20 departments increased their private security expenditure from 2006.
She said the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development spent the largest amount on private security firms during 2007, amounting to R131,8 million.
The figures show that two other big spending departments were from the criminal justice cluster with the Department of Safety and Security spending R112,1 million and the Department of Correctional Services spending R59,3 million.
Safety and Security spokesperson Trevor Bloem said they used private security because it was a cost-beneficial exercise as it was cheaper than police services.
SAPS spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vish Naidoo said, in defence of private guards protecting police stations that it did not make sense to use police officers, who were trained extensively, to protect stations.