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Gauteng crime drops ‘Many people fall victim at shopping malls to criminals who use jamming devices to unlock their cars and gain access to their motor vehicles’

Crime Reporter crime@gazettelive.co.za

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Gauteng police Commissioner Lt-Gen Mzwandile Petros.

ost categories of crime is on the decline in Gauteng, according to figures presented by Gauteng Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Mzwandile Petros on Tuesday. Petros was presenting the 2011/2012 Crime Report to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature Portfolio Committee on Community Safety in Johannesburg. During the year in review, serious crime decreased by 5.9%. There was also a decline in contact crimes such as murder, attempted murder, robberies, sexual offences, assault grievous bodily harm (GBH) and common assault. These crimes decreased by 11% compared to the previous financial year. Murder, specifically, decreased by 8.6%. Noting some trends, Petros said in Gauteng there was displace-

ment of crime from city centres to outlying areas. This meant that police stations in all areas needed to have strategies to deal with crime. A decrease in business robberies in the province was also recorded. This had also resulted in a displacement, with criminals no longer targeting the big businesses but spaza shops and small businesses that could not afford security. Trio crimes, carjacking, robbery residential and business, decreased by 12.3% for the year under review. There was a 12.3% reduction in sexual offences and a 9.1% in rape, including attempted rape in the province. Robbery with aggravating circumstances declined by 12.9%. Lt-Gen Petros said police were determined to wipe out bank robberies and that with the help from partners in stepping up security at banks, bank heists could become a thing of the past. There was a 28% reduction

in bank robberies and 55.7% drop in cash-in-transit heists. While ATM bombings declined by 37.4%, Petros noted that when criminals arrested for this crime were held, the figures for this crime dropped, only to spike once they got out of prison. An area of concern was theft out of motor vehicles, which increased by 3.5%. Petros said this problem is at national level as well. Most people were falling victim at shopping malls to criminals using jamming devices to unlock their cars and gain access to their vehicles. He added that he wanted to see an increase in categories of crime such as confiscation of drugs, illegal firearms and driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. These crimes were detected due to police action and an increase in figures would indicate that police were doing their jobs. SAnews.gov.za

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