Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 24-10-2017
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has revealed that while there was an overall drop in contact crime of 3.3%, the country’s murder rate has increased by 1.8%.
Sexual violence, Property-related crime and assault with the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm (GBH) meanwhile saw a drop.
Mbalula was presenting the 2016/2017 national crime statistics in Parliament on Tuesday.
More than 2.1 million crimes were reported last year of which 1 738 980 were community-reported serious crimes.
Mbalula says bringing down crime in South Africa was in the national interest irrespective of political affiliation and “violent criminals will receive a proportional response to what they dish out.”
“Today I am saying to criminal gangs; “Nilibambe Lingashoni – I am coming for you hard, enough is enough.”
According to the figures, 19,016 murders were recorded in 2016/2017, the highest in ten years, with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal recording the highest number of murders.
Earlier Acting Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Lesetja Mothiba said the levels of crime in the country was concerning.
“We are very worried about the violent nature of crime…We cannot be dealing with so many murders in this country.”
Mothiba was also concerned about the decreasing police numbers in the country.
The crime statistics released annually to provide an overview of crimes that have been reported to the police.
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