Lentswe, Lichtenburg – MEC JS Lahari released the second quarter crime statistics last week.
He told a group of esteemed guests that they activated the safer festive season operations in October and declared at the time that in this province, they are not going to be tolerant for any deviancy.
“We reminded everyone that in this province we are going to be unsympathetic to any wrong doing. Any contravention of any edict of the republic, will be dealt with harshly. Any one wrong move, will meet the full might of the law. This is because as we are preparing for the year end festivities, criminals are also preparing their plans to harm South Africans and steal their belongings. We have already begun with law enforcement operations which are beginning to bear fruits.
However, as you shall see in the presentation of the Second Quarter Crime Statistics, there are some areas where crime has gone down whilst elsewhere has gone up. There has been a year on year increment of murder, sexual offences, assault with the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm and robbery with aggravating circumstance as compared to the same period last year. We are releasing these statistics as the country is observing the Sixteen (16) Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children.“
The stats:
o According to the results, 11 060 contact crimes took place in the province (up from 8888 in 2019) and 25 082 community reported crimes were reported.
o Klerksdorp is in second place in the province with 1 093 serious crimes. Jouberton is ninth with 717 crimes.
o Jouberton tops arson and is second with robbery at non-residential places.
o Klerksdorp tops burglary at non-residential and is 11th national.
o Ikageng leads with sexual offences, Jouberton is fourth.
o Klerksdorp suffered 11 carjackings (5th in province).
o Klerksdorp leads burglary non-residential.
o The NW is in sixth place with murders and domestic violence in the country.
