12 Sep 2019
Crime Stats: Murder up 3.4%, sexual offences rose 4.6% in 2018/19
Murder, sexual offences and other contact crimes rose in the past financial year, the Portfolio Committee on Police heard on Thursday.
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12 Sep 2019
Crime Stats: Murder of women down by 5.4%, but child murders increase in 2018/19
The number of women murdered in the 2018/19 financial year in South African decreased, but the number of children murdered increased, MPs heard on Thursday.
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Briefing concludes
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Stock theft is a highly organised crime, says Cele
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Stock theft has a huge economic impact, Cele adds
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Stock theft affects vulnerable people in rural areas, says Sekhukhune
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Cele talks about bettering visibility as an easy way to reduce crime. When criminals see police, they perhaps feel a bit of fear before doing something. Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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High police visibility key to reduce crime, says Cele
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Cele says the police are reviving the tracking team to hunt
down criminals
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We need to change in societal values, but crime is crime,
says Maluleke of domestic violence.
He argues that in many cases, families do report these
crimes to police
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Many factors contribute to crime, says Sekhukhune
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Many government departments and NGOs have to work together
to beat crime, says Cele
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Cele says a policeman was killed in Nyanga, but while there
was a camera at the scene, it had not been working for eight years
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"I don't dine and wine". Cele says he doesn't drink after being asked a question about the role of alcohol in the high levels of violence. The #CrimeStats earlier showed that up to 60% of contact crimes took place over the weekend. Tweet from @Ethan_VD
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The longer they stay, the more they drink, the more they
kill each other, says Cele of crime at alcohol selling venues
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Even if an establishment is licenced, if there are under 18s
in there, it is immediately illegal, says Cele
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Alcohol is a big portion of people committing crime, says
Cele
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The Eastern Cape and Western Cape are the provinces with the highest numbers where children were murderers. More than 700 people were murdered by children. Tweet from @Ethan_VD
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There are 20 "middle management" gangsters appearing
in Cape Town, says Cele
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231 child committed murders in the Eastern Cape
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Child committed murders is not a new category, says Sekhukhune
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There's no such thing as an internationally acceptable murder rate, says Sekhukhune.
You can't compare countries
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Cele: We are very sure that we will be achieving the reversal of this situation. Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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Cele on fighting serious crime: We are revitalising some units that had impact before, we are working with more NGOs and society at large, and working more as a cluster to put criminals where they are supposed to be. Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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Cele says clusters are working much better
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There were things that were done properly. We need to go
back to them, says Cele
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Sekhukhune says the murder rate was 35.8 per 100 000 people in the previous financial years. It now stands at 36.4 murders per 100 000.Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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Cele is told that he said last year heads would roll if stats increased. He says now: The heads can't roll because they are expected to shift back or reverse stats. Allow their heads to reverse the situation, especially with murders. Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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From our side as a ministry we don't see that heads should
roll now, says Cele.
Giving support to officials
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We're not where we
want to be, says Cele
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829 increase in stock theft
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Major General Norman Sekhukhune, head of police crime
research and statistics says there was an increase in murders
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Statistician General Risenga Maluleke says they talk in facts to deliver hard numbers to the nation. He signed off on the crime stats. Such status is not given and guaranteed. It has to be upheld. Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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Crime stats declared official
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Statistician General Risenga Maluleke says that there was a
careful examination of the annual crime statistics
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Cele says they have heeded Ramaphosa's call to re-open all cold cases involving gender-based violence crimes, tweets @JennaEtheridge
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Cele says crime stats are legitimate
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Cele says efforts to recruit and train more women to deal
with gender violence cases
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Cele says there are glimmers of improvements. He believes that the rebuilding of crime intelligence and working closely with other stakeholders such as the NPA will produce favourable results. Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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All 1 154 police stations reported crimes
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Cele: Last year I said we dropped the ball and that we would either reduce or maintain the murder rate. I am here to say today that the crime stats are not looking good, however they look much better than last year in most categories. Tweet from @JennaEtheridge
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Parliamentary briefing concludes