Police Commissioner must release long overdue quarterly crime statistics on Wednesday
27 August 2018
National Police Commissioner, General Khehla Sitole, is due to appear before Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police on Wednesday where he is expected to do a presentation on crime against women and children. The Democratic Alliance would like to urge the Police Commissioner to use this opportunity to also release the 2017/18 and 2018/19 quarterly crime reports for all other crimes.
In the past, the South African Police Services (SAPS) have continuously assured the Committee that it would release crime statistics on a quarterly basis, however, the release of these reports is long overdue.
The last time the Committee was briefed in this regard was last year with the release of the 2016/17 annual crime statistics.
It would seem as though the SAPS is purposely attempting to either postpone or avoid the release of the quarterly crime reports.