Fikile Mbalula urges banks, private security industry to fight heists
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has urged the banking sector and the private security industry to invest more resources to fight cash-in-transit crime, which has spiked in recent years. Mbalula released the crime statistics for April 2016 to March 2017 in Parliament on Tuesday. Cash-in-transit heists fell consistently between 2008 (394) and 2013 (145) but are on an upward trend once again (152) after a low of 119 in 2014-15. Murder was up to 19,016 in the 2015-16 financial year, an increase of 343 from the previous year. Attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstance also increased. Sexual offences and assault with grievous bodily harm were captured as having decreased. Briefing the police portfolio committee, Mbalula said more than 2.1-million crimes had been captured in the statistics. He said this was a bid to make the South African Police Service (SAPS) more accountable to civilians. The minister lamented the increase in some of the more violent crime categories. Mbal...
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