The Department of Home Affairs is going to focus on transforming its staff to build more caring and security-conscious employees, the department's Director Generalsaid on Tuesday.

Following the unqualified audit the department received last year - the first time since 1995 that it had achieved such an audit - the department is now pushing for a clean audit, he said.

Apleni was briefing media in Parliament following the department's appearance before the National Assembly's Committee on Home Affairs.