POLICE Minister Nathi Nhleko will release on Friday morning the latest national crime statistics to the parliamentary portfolio committee.National police commissioner General Riah Phiyega was suspended in the year under review and replaced by acting police commissioner Kgomotso Phahlane.Analysts are waiting eagerly to see if the ructions in the department had any effect on the South African Police Service’s crime-fighting role.Phiyega was suspended soon after the Farlam Commission of Inquiry recommended that a board of inquiry be held into her fitness for holding office. The former commissioner is challenging her suspension.The DA on Thursday said they saw no reason to be optimistic about the crime stats.DA MP Zakhele Mbhele told reporters that while Phahlane inspired more confidence as a leader than the suspended Phiyega, the low conviction rates for serious crimes sent out a message that crime did, in fact, pay."These stats are entirely for the period under both Riah Phiyega and t...
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