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Gauteng Police Commissioner Elias Mawela says a number of policing interventions are in place to tackle crime in Gauteng.
Close to 11 000 sexual offences were reported to police in Gauteng between April 2019 and March this year. There was an increase of 58 cases compared to the previous year’s crime statistics.
More than 8 000 of the cases related to rape, with most of them being reported in areas including Temba in Tshwane, Dobsonville, Diepsloot, Moroka and Mamelodi East.
But Mawela says sexual offences in the province are remarkably smaller compared to previous year.
“Although we registered an increase, this 0.5% in sexual offences is remarkably smaller compared to the 2018/19 increase of 6.3% that translated 636 cases higher. This can be attributed to the intervention to work to restore public trust and confidence in the police service as well as raising awareness among communities, successful tracing and arrest of wanted suspects.”
There’s been outrage from all sectors of society about the high rate of violence against women and children.
In the video below, Minister Bheki Cele releases 2019/2020 national crime statistics:
