{"id":135341,"date":"2016-09-02T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T08:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=135341"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T08:19:46","slug":"shocking-levels-of-murder-and-carjacking-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/135341\/shocking-levels-of-murder-and-carjacking-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking levels of murder and carjacking in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African Police Service has released the crime statistics for 2016, showing that the country’s murder rate and cases of carjacking have increased over the 12 months covered.<\/p>\n

According to the data, overall crime in South Africa has decreased between 2015 and 2016, with 2.1 million crimes reported in the 12 months measured.<\/p>\n

Provincially, Limpopo and Mpumalanga crime levels increased, while all other provinces decreased. The Northern Cape remained stable, the SAPS said.<\/p>\n

However, two statistics stand out in murder and carjacking, which have increased by 3.2% and 14.3% over the 12 month review, respectively.<\/p>\n

The Institute of Security Studies<\/a><\/strong> published two infographics showing how these crimes have been spread across the country.<\/p>\n

Gauteng remains the biggest hotspot for carjackings, while the Eastern Cape has overtaken the Western Cape as the province with the highest murder rate.<\/p>\n

\"Carjacking<\/a> \"Murder<\/a><\/p>\n

Community reported crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The majority of some 2 million charges laid at police stations in the last year were reported by the community, as opposed to being detected by police, Parliament heard on Friday.<\/p>\n

Around 1.7 million charges (83%) were serious crimes reported by South Africans between April 2015 and March this year, crime research and statistics head Major General Norman Sekhukhune told Parliament\u00b4s police portfolio committee.<\/p>\n

Police detected the remaining 17%.<\/p>\n

Contact crimes (crimes against a person) constituted the most charges, at 35.2%.<\/p>\n

This was followed by property-related crimes (30.7%), other serious crimes (27%) and contact-related crimes (7%).<\/p>\n

Contact-related crimes were arson and malicious damage to property cases.<\/p>\n

Sekhukhune said the overall analysis depicted notable progress in reducing community-reported crimes.<\/p>\n

He confirmed the statistics report was quality assessed by the technical working team, composed of Stats SA and police members.<\/p>\n

With News24<\/a><\/p>\n

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