Quarterly crime stats show that KZN’s crime-fighting strategies are not working
21 February 2021
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) calls for SAPS services within Inanda and Umlazi to be prioritised. This following the recent release of extremely worrying Third Quarter crime statistics for the province, which show an increase in almost every priority crime category during the period October to December 2020.
The figures, released by National Police Minister Bheki Cele late last week, show that KZN continues to be South Africa’s rape capital, with the Inanda and Umlazi SAPS stations again reporting the highest number of rape cases in the entire country with increases of 2.4% and 4,5% respectively.
The two stations also featured prominently in terms of the following;
- Sexual offences, with Inanda SAPS again recording the highest number of incidents in the country
- Murder, with the province experiencing a 10.5 % increase and Inanda and Umlazi again featuring prominently and
- Attempted murder, with Inanda and Umlazi again highlighted.