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  2. Crime in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    According to SAPS and SSA statistics, the rate of increase in violent crimes committed in South Africa (2016-2020) was slowing down, [107] but up to 2019/20, the incidence of this crime category was usually growing year on year. [108] In April 2022, Numbeo found that 5 of the top 20 most dangerous cities in the world were in South Africa. [109]

  3. South African Police Service - Wikipedia

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    In February 2018, SAPS Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane, who was also former acting SAPS Commissioner, and his wife appeared in court on charges of fraud and corruption. [68] [69] [70] On 30 July 2020, Phahlane was dismissed from the police after three years on suspension. [71] The same day, he was found guilty of dishonest conduct. [71]

  4. South African farm attacks - Wikipedia

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    Recorded farm attacks (4,308) and farm murders (806) from 2010 to the end of August 2023. The SAPS stopped releasing homicide statistics on farm murders in 2007 instead merging them with all homicide figures, this has increased the difficulty of accessing reliable statistics on the phenomenon with most studies since relying on data from the ...

  5. Crime Intelligence Division - Wikipedia

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    The Crime Intelligence Division of the South African Police Service is an intelligence agency that tracks criminal elements within the Republic of South Africa. It is run by a Divisional Commissioner, who is also a member of the National Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee (NICOC), to which they report. The main functions of the CI division are:

  6. Crime statistics - Wikipedia

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    Crime statistics refer to systematic, quantitative results about crime, as opposed to crime news or anecdotes. Notably, crime statistics can be the result of two rather different processes: scientific research, such as criminological studies, victimisation surveys; official figures, such as published by the police, prosecution, courts, and prisons.

  7. South African Police - Wikipedia

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    Beyond the conventional police functions of upholding order and solving crime, the SAP employed counterinsurgency and intimidation tactics against anti-apartheid activists and critics of the white minority government. From 1961 to 1990, a total of 67 people died in South African Police detention from hanging and torture as well as natural ...

  8. Law enforcement in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The SAPS came to replace the Apartheid national police force, the South African Police in 1994. The Constitution of South Africa states that the SAPS' responsibilities are to prevent, combat and investigate crime; maintain and protect the public, their property and the overall security and safety of the Republic; uphold and enforce the law; and ...

  9. Meyerton, Gauteng - Wikipedia

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    The latest annual crime statistics for the Meyerton Police Precinct was issued by the South African Police Service (SAPS) in 2021. The SAPS crime report [ 4 ] showed the following information: Type of crime