The National Development Plan consists of fifteen chapters and Chapter 12 deals with "Building Safer Communities". One of the key components of this chapter is the establishment of a National Policing Board equipped with multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary expertise. According to the NDP, the Board should set standards for recruiting, selecting, appointing and promoting police officials and police officers. Furthermore, the NDP states that "the National Commissioner of Police and Deputies should be appointed by the President on a competitive basis". The author believes that this approach is still vulnerable to cadre deployment and will not solve current leadership crisis in the SAPS. Ever since the appointment of Mr Jackie Selebi and Mr Bheki Cele as South African Police Commissioners, questions have been raised as to whether their lack of policing experience could help the police to move forward. These questions