NOTABLE progress had been made in reducing 17 community reported crimes in 2015-16 but contact crimes such as murder showed an increase, the South African Police Service registrar of crime statistics reported Friday.The crimes reported on to Parliament’s police portfolio committee included contact crimes such as murder, sexual offences and assault; contact-related and property-related crimes; and other serious crimes such as commercial crimes and shoplifting.A total of 2.1-million charges were laid in the last financial year, of which 1.7-million were reported by the community (65% of these were contact and property related-crimes) and 350,000 resulted from police action.READ THIS: Statistics not likely to reflect improvement in fight against crimeThere was a 1.4% decrease in community-reported crimes year on year.Contact-related crimes fell 2.7%, property-related crimes by 1.8% and other serious crimes by 1.4%.However, contact crimes increased by 1%. Murder increased by 4.9% and a...
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