AfriForum and SAIRR releases crime report
6 September 2016
The civil rights organisation AfriForum in conjunction with the South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) released a report today, titled Winning the war on crime in South Africa: A new approach to community policing.
This report provides answers to the questions that originated from the release of last week’s shocking crime statistics.
According to Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Community Safety, three forms of self-protection in communities, which falls within the framework of the Constitution, is investigated in this report.
Cameron adds that the importance of partnerships between the local South African Police Service (SAPS), communities and private security companies will have to be emphasised in future. “The Back To Basics strategy of Lt. Genl. Khomotso Phahlane, acting National Police Commissioner, can only be successful when it is carried out in conjunction with communities. In this way an active attempt to rebuild community structures can thus lead to a drastic decline in crime.”