SAPS Crime Stats released September 2010

South African Police Services` Crime Statistics release 9 September 2010

Looking at crime trends over time at a national level can provide an interesting picture - but it does not help us to understand what causes the increases and decreases in the levels of crime. Unless one disaggregates the crime statistics by crime type at provincial or local level, the statistics can raise more questions than they answer.

On this page you will find all the South African crime statistics as released by the South African Police Service on 9 September 2010, as well the report by Chandre Gould, Johan Burger and Gareth Newham explaining more around the SAPS Crime Stats, “FACT SHEET: What the crime stats tell us, and what they don’t”

For more information on crime statistics in South Africa, contact the Crime and Criminal Justice Programme at the ISS Pretoria Office