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#CrimeStats: Rape decreases, sex assaults creep up
The figures, released annually, provide an overview of crimes that have been reported to the police.
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#CrimeStats: SA's murder rate up 1.8 %
Last year's figures revealed that murder went up by 4.9% compared to the 2014/2015 period.
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#CrimeStats: Murders increase, sexual offences decrease
The minister says that the majority of these crimes are social in nature, which makes it difficult for police alone to reduce the levels.
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Mbalula backs Joburg mayor's bid to clean up city
Police Minister Fikile Mashaba is preparing to take Home Affairs Minister Ayanda Dlodlo to court to force her department to deport illegal migrants.
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Mbalula to release latest crime stats in Parly
It's the first time that Police Minister Fikile Mbalula will be presenting the statistics since his appointment to the portfolio during a Cabinet reshuffle in March.
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[WATCH] Police clamp down on Vanderbijlpark after police attack
After a skirmish between SAPS officials and foreign nationals at an alleged drug house, law enforcement is clamping down on crime in the area.
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Mbalula unaware of ‘revenge attack’ after Vanderbijlpark house raid
Fikile Mabalula says unlike criminals, officers must never be placed in a situation where they fear for their lives.
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Ntlemeza writes to ConCourt to appeal his removal from Hawks
The former head says he also wants Police Minister Fikile Mbalula to reinstate him while awaiting the outcome of the Constitutional Court application.
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DA Western Cape calls on Mbalula to expedite process of SANDF deployment
DA Western Cape Youth members handed over a memorandum of demands to officials at the Philippi East police station.
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DA plead with Mbalula to intensify police manpower in WC
Cape Metro DA Youth leader Carl Pophain says the violent crime situation has now reached a crisis point.
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Amcu wants meeting with Police Minister over Marikana murders
The union has also announced that it will ask forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan to probe the incidents.
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No progress on request for SANDF deployment to gang hotspots
The Police Ministry has yet to receive a response from the Presidency on their request to have the SANDF deployed to gang hotspots in the Western Cape and Gauteng.
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Mbalula wants security beefed up at CT International Airport
Two men, among them a notorious gang boss, were shot and wounded at the airport on Wednesday morning.
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SAHRC yet to receive DA's request to probe CT wrongful arrest
Officers suspected the men of being connected to the murder of 11 people in Philippi earlier this month.
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Mbalula believes airport crimes are coming to an end
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula's comments come after six suspects were arrested at the weekend following a tip-off from a security vehicle following a car from the airport.
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Mbalula waiting for Zuma to authorise SANDF deployment to CT gang hotspots
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula last week visited Hanover Park and Manenberg where he explained how soldiers will help police.
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Mbalula embroiled in row over police arrests
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula says that attempts by some individuals to romanticize, defend and side with suspects of crime is concerning.
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Mbalula praises SAPS for arrests in ‘airport-following’ robberies case
Six suspects were arrested after police received a tip-off about a security vehicle following a sedan travelling from OR Tambo International Airport.
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DA: Crime fighting efforts should not be done at expense of Constitution
The party has weighed in on a matter involving the SAPS and the alleged wrongful arrest of 10 men on the N1 highway in Cape Town.
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DA condemns Mbalula’s conduct in wrongful arrest of men
During a police operation, Minister Fikile Mbalula took to Twitter posting a photo of men handcuffed and lying face down on the ground.
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Mbalula denies wrongful arrest of 11 men in CT
The Police Minister says officers did nothing wrong when they arrested a group of suspects on the N1 on Friday night. The men were later released without being charged.
