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Original Post Date: 2004-05-27 Time: 11:09:27 Posted By: Jan
[Charles Nqakula is a black man who had a long and illustrious career in the South African Communist Party. Now he is the Minister of Safety and Security. I don’t trust him for one minute. Jan]
Government has set itself a target of reducing crime by between 7% and 10% a year over the next five years, says Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
The anticrime plan would focus on the 63 most crime-ridden areas in SA and on serious crimes such as murder and rape, the minister told a parliamentary media briefing yesterday.
While there had been a reduction in the crime rate as a result of government programmes, it still remained at an unacceptably high level, he said.
“We are moving in the right direction,” Nqakula said . Police response times were shorter and more investigations were successful but rape continued to be a “source of concern”.
Khayelitsh a, a poverty-stricken township outside Cape Town, has been identified as the area with the country’s highest rate of murders, attempted murders, rape and attempted rape and violent assaults , Nqakula said.
Policing methods were not sufficient to deal with social crime that arose from economic deprivation. Ways of dealing with this were being investigated, Nqakula said.
A special task team has been established to arrest the 200 top criminals on the loose in SA.
Nqakula said the 200 were known to the police and had been involved in organised crime involving drug smuggling, bank robberies, heists and murders.
Every year, for the next five years, 10 more sexual offences courts would be established, bringing the total to 50.
Railway police would be reintroduced, with the first 400 trained officers to be deployed from January next year on Cape Town trains, where there is a high incidence of criminal activity.
A review of the criminal justice system would be taken to the cabinet soon, the minister said.
A major challenge was that 60% of convicted persons were repeat offenders and more resources would have to be devoted to rehabilitation, he said.
Source: AllAfrica.Com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200405261046.htm…/p>