Crime statistics: City tips its hat to staff for their contribution
22 November 2021
The City of Cape Town notes the latest crime statistics released by the SAPS on Friday, 19 November 2021.
While the number of serious and violent crime incidents remain unacceptably high, the City is heartened by the stabilising trends in some of Cape Town’s policing precincts.
The role played by local government in policing continues to increase in scope as the resources of the national police service continue to be eroded, having lost 551 staff here over the last three years and with billions of rand of budget cuts this year and in the coming years.
As the City we have not thrown our hands up or insisted that crime prevention is the function of national government. The City has found every possible way to increase the boots on the ground, whether through rent-a-cops sponsored by business communities, reservists in the form of our Law Enforcement Auxiliary Service or innovations and partnerships such as the Law Enforcement Advancement Plan, which has put around 1 100 officers on the streets of the 10 worst crime-affected communities with hopefully more to follow.