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Police Welcome Decline in Aggravated Robberies (news)

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Original Post Date: 2010-09-09 Time: 16:00:02  Posted By: News Poster

Pretoria – There has been a considerable decrease in aggravated robberies, particularly in the areas of street robberies and hijacking, says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.

Announcing the National Crime Statistics on Thursday, the minister said robbery with aggravating circumstances had decreased by 7.5 percent in the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010.

There was a 7.3 percent decline in the number of cash-in-transit robberies and police made 52 arrests during that period.

Mthethwa said intelligence work and partnerships with various stakeholders had helped combat this type of robberies.

Bank robberies also decreased by 8.8 percent with police making 38 arrests.

There was a significant decline to 10.4 percent in public or street robberies and 9 552 arrests made.

“We can attribute this decrease to extremely high levels of police visibility which we maintained at various communities,” he added.

Partnerships with community policing forums had also contributed to the positive figures in the terms of street robberies.

Mthethwa also noted that there significant decrease in major business robberies – which included all kinds of businesses both big and small.

There has been a 51 percent decline of robberies at major retailers, an 11 percent decline at shopping malls, 25 percent decline at petrol stations and an 18 percent decline at post offices. “This is encouraging because these industries had been negatively affected in the past few years,” the minister added.

A 2.7 percent increase in burglaries at resident premises was recorded, Mthethwa said.

However, he noted that for the first time this type of crime, that has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past five years, had started to stabilise.

Robbery at non-residential premises had decreased by 4.4 percent. The minister said this type of crime had always recorded a sharp increase and for the first time there was a stabilisation in this area.

Mthethwa added while house and small business robberies had shown the targeted decline, police were nevertheless pleased with the decrease.

He attributed the decline and stabilsing of these crimes to initiatives police have introduced such as War Rooms, the profiling of the most wanted suspects and the introduction of Tactical Response Teams.

Original date published: 9 September 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009090767.html?viewall=1