Limpopo Gambling Board Final

5.4 Programme 4: Law Enforcement

The purpose of this programme is to combat illegal gambling throughout the province by conducting investigations of illegal gambling activities and crime awareness campaigns.

This programme does not have any sub-programmes.

The institutional outcomes that programme 4 contributes towards: Outcome 5 : All modes of illegal gambling activities combatted.

Outcomes, outputs, output indicators, targets and actual achievements The Law Enforcement Business Unit achieved its 100% target of the 2022/23 Financial Year. Positive performance of the organisation had a huge impact on the collection of Provincial revenue notwithstanding illegal gambling activities which had a negative impact on provincial revenue collection. The mushrooming of illegal gambling activities also had a huge impact on the well-being of society as illegal gambling operators do not implement the Responsible Gambling Programme. Due to the non-implementation of the Responsible Gambling Programme by illegal gambling operators, the youth, women, and people living with disabilities were affected as they could not access any assistance in the form of counselling which resulted in gambling addictions. Performance Information according to the APP PROGRAMME 4: LAW ENFORCEMENT Purpose: : The purpose of this programme is to reduce illegal gambling throughout the province by: a) Conducting investigation of crime. b) Conducting crime awareness campaigns.

Outcome

Output

Output Number of investigations conducted

indicator

Actual

achievements 2021/22

Planned annual target 2022/23 Actual

achievement 2022/23

Deviation

from planned

target to actual achievement 2022/23

Reasons for deviations

Interventions

The Unit conducted 274 investigations in response to enormous influx of illegal gambling machines and the widespread increase of illegal online gambling activities in the province.

on illegal gambling activities.

0

150

274

+124

N/A

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