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Department: Community Safety and Femicide as well as the stubborn problem of livestock theft, which continues to plague our Province. 3 OUTLOOK FOR THE COMING FINANCIAL YEAR (2025/26) Eastern Cape Department of Community Safety is committed to exerting significant efforts in ensuring a focus on the safety and well-being of the people in the province, and the following will be implemented: %uf0b7 The department will continue to monitor and oversee the South African Police Service in terms of the Civilian Secretariat for Police Act 2 of 2011, with the aim of improving police performance and accountability to communities, ultimately contributing to eradicating crime in all communities. %uf0b7 Continue to strengthen the Community Safety Platforms through mobilising communities, establishing partnerships, and fostering direct community and public participation. Dedicated effort will also be made to strengthen community safety structures through capacitating and resourcing these structures to function effectively as they are the main tools for enhancing engagement and community participation. %uf0b7 Furthermore, the department shall coordinate implementation of the agreement of cooperation to fight crime in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro and further coordinate establishment of these agreement in OR Tambo and Buffalo City Metro. Through these agreements, there will be efficient cooperations between all law enforcement agencies, business sector, and private security to consolidate resources and efforts to fight crime in the respective areas. In contributing to the fight against crime and Gender Based Violence and Femicide, the department will continue to coordinate the implementation of Provincial Safety Strategy as a tool to strengthen collaborations between various stakeholders to intensify the fight against crime and violence across the province. Guided by the %u201cMusa Ukuthula Kusonakala%u201d campaign, further mobilisation of communities will continue through implementation of the Community Safety Brigades project with 100 patrollers being deployed in Buffalo City Metro. Considering the high levels of stock theft in the province, the Court Watching Brief Programme will be expanded beyond GBV and will cover stock theft cases. This will assist in improving detection and conviction rate for the stock theft cases. The fight against public and private corruption will be strengthened and coordinated through the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster to ensure strengthened tools to rid communities from crime and violence. This is to ensure that all citizens are and feel safe in their communities. 4 REPRIORITISATION Reprioritisation has been directed towards aligning the budget resources with the key service delivery and safety promotion programmes, and other relevant sectorial priorities. The department undertook a vigorous reprioritisation of its budget in an attempt to adhere within the appropriated budget for the year. Reprioritisation was undertaken at both programme and economic classification level, and this was applied as follows: %u2022 Whilst there was a limited scope of reprioritisation for 2025/26 under Programme 1: Administration, a net reprioritised amount of R1.913 million to this programme is observed under Capital Assets mainly to cater for the procurement of computer equipment (laptops) in the new financial year. 864