{"id":157259,"date":"2017-02-18T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=157259"},"modified":"2017-02-18T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T06:48:42","slug":"how-long-it-takes-the-police-to-respond-to-emergencies-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/157259\/how-long-it-takes-the-police-to-respond-to-emergencies-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How long it takes the police to respond to emergencies in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statistics South Africa has released its\u00a0Victims of Crime Survey (VOCS) detailing emergency response call times across South Africa’s nine provinces.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the Western Cape has by far the fastest response time of the police to emergency calls. It is also the only province where a significant percentage of households reported that it takes less than 30 minutes for the police to respond to an emergency call.<\/p>\n

In the Northern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga households generally indicated that it takes more than two hours for police to respond to an emergency call.<\/p>\n

North West has the worst police response time to emergency calls where more than 50% of the households reported that it takes more than two hours or never arrive.<\/p>\n

Emergency Response Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The report also asked\u00a0households \u00a0how often they saw police in uniform and on duty in their area of residence.<\/p>\n

According to the responses, the Northern Cape had the highest visibility with 50.8% of households reported seeing police patrolling in their area at least once a day, followed by Gauteng (48.1%), Western Cape (43.2%) and Free State (43.2%).<\/p>\n

The worst police visibility is in KwaZulu-Natal where over 20% of households responded that they never see a police officer in uniform in their area.<\/p>\n

How likely you are to see a patrolling police officer<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Read:\u00a0How crime is killing small business in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statistics South Africa has released its Victims of Crime Survey (VOCS) detailing emergency response call times based on where you live across South Africa’s nine provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,1809],"class_list":["post-157259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-stats-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157259"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158589,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157259\/revisions\/158589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}