Carjacking, residential robbery on the up

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Cape Town – Carjacking has increased by 14.3%, a police official told Parliament during the presentation of the 2015/16 crime statistics on Friday.

While this crime had increased in all provinces, theft out of motor vehicles had decreased, crime research and statistics head Major General Norman Sekhukhune told the police portfolio committee. The figures were for April 2015 to March this year.

Carjacking was highest in heavily-populated Gauteng.

Residential robbery increased by 2.7% in the same period. Gauteng had the highest number of reported residential robberies, but saw a decrease.

The Western Cape, meanwhile, had a worrying 19.3% increase in robberies at home. Eastern Cape was not far behind with a 13.4% increase.

Robberies at non-residential premises increased by 2.8%, as did cash-in-transit robberies (up 15.1%).

Sekhukhune said there was good news for truck hijacking, which had decreased by 7.4%. Decreases were noted in Gauteng, Western Cape and Limpopo, whereas increases were seen in Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape.

Bank robberies decreased by 64.7% percent, from 17 cases to 6 cases, in the last year.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/carjacking-residential-robbery-on-the-up-20160902

 

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Cape Town – Carjacking has increased by 14.3%, a police official told Parliament during the presentation of the 2015/16 crime statistics on Friday.

While this crime had increased in all provinces, theft out of motor vehicles had decreased, crime research and statistics head Major General Norman Sekhukhune told the police portfolio committee. The figures were for April 2015 to March this year.

Carjacking was highest in heavily-populated Gauteng.

Residential robbery increased by 2.7% in the same period. Gauteng had the highest number of reported residential robberies, but saw a decrease.

The Western Cape, meanwhile, had a worrying 19.3% increase in robberies at home. Eastern Cape was not far behind with a 13.4% increase.

Robberies at non-residential premises increased by 2.8%, as did cash-in-transit robberies (up 15.1%).

Sekhukhune said there was good news for truck hijacking, which had decreased by 7.4%. Decreases were noted in Gauteng, Western Cape and Limpopo, whereas increases were seen in Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape.

Bank robberies decreased by 64.7% percent, from 17 cases to 6 cases, in the last year.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/carjacking-residential-robbery-on-the-up-20160902

hmmmm. thats leka ***.

 

[The_Ogre]

hmmmm. thats leka ***.

How's it in your area?

 

[akescpt]

How's it in your area?

quiet. which means f0kk0l. just means im hearing nothing. need to find out if there's a whatsapp street committee.

 

[The_Ogre]

Only incident I've heard of in mine was one guy's side-rear window being thrown out by crooks around that corner as you enter my area. So its been quiet as well.

One also has to question the reliability of these stats per demographic region within the metro.

A person who's house in Plattekloof was burgled is much more likely to report it to the police who'll attend to the scene and put the incident on record. If it were to happen on the Flats, the police do not show up - not because they don't want to, but there's just so much schit being reported that they just cannot get to everything - or they take so long to show up that mob justice mode activates and the community goes and looks for the perp(s) and makes him pay.

The problem with the second scenario is, the guy still gets picked up by the police, but taken to the hospital instead since now they cannot get a statement from anybody (because nobody talks in a mob justice case). So once again the incident does not get recorded.