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Murder Drops By 8.6 Percent (news)

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

Pretoria – Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has released the National Crime Statistics for the past fiscal year announcing a significant decline in the murder rate for that period.

Murder decreased by 8.6 percent from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010.

“We have seen the third largest decrease since 1995. For the first time in the history of SAPS, the murder figure fell below the 17 000 mark compared to 26 877 in 1995/1996 fiscal year,” the minister said on Thursday.

He explained that the achievement was significant given that murder was one of the most reliable crime categories in crime stats.

“Of all the crimes this is the one category you cannot easily cheat. In other words, the fact that such a crime is counted based on the actual bodies makes it more reliable,” he added.

Mthethwa said he was further encouraged by the number of arrests that have taken place that are associated with this type of crime. A total of 11 834 arrests have been made.

However, he said while this had bolstered their resolve to fight crime, the police would endeavour to reduce the figure even more.

Other categories of crime that also declined in this period included car hijacking, attempted murder, aggravated robberies, street robberies, cash-in-transit heists and bank robberies.

Original date published: 9 September 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009090766.html?viewall=1