- The Authority should recruit scouts to fill in vacant posts as soon as they arise. This
would boost the scout densities and hopefully the anti-poaching units would be able
to operate efficiently and effectively. Furthermore, stations should be allowed to
recruit anti-poaching personnel whenever vacancies arose. This should, however, be
done in consultation with the National Park Provincial Officers and the Head Office.
The Authority should also speed up the appointment of substantive officers in the top
management to enable proper decision making and implementation of projects.
- The Authority, since it is a paramilitary1 department should lobby for the revision of
the retirement age of its scouts so that it can be in line with other paramilitary and
military organisations (i.e. ZDF and ZRP). Army and Police personnel retire either at
the attainment of the age of 50 years or serving the organisation for twenty years
which ever comes first.
Or
The Authority should put in place a manpower planning system that does not
compromise on the effectiveness of the anti poaching personnel due to aging. This
should entail the re-allocating of tasks (i.e. giving the over aged light duties) and
transferring of aging scouts to stations which are not demanding and replacing them
with younger ones from other stations that do not do a lot of extended patrols or hard
labour like capture and translocation.
- Top Management should come up with a training policy and programme for the
whole organization. It should also ensure that adequate equipment is available for