Contact crimes in Gauteng have increased by 6% for the quarter under review, as compared to the same period last year.
This was revealed by Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant General Elias Mawela while tabling the 2023 second quarter crime statistics in the provincial legislature on Tuesday.
"For the quarter under review, these two offences have increased by 11.3% and 7.8%, respectively with a combined 20 088 counts more."He added that while the murder rate remained stable, it was still high. It is 1 489, down one from last year's 1 490.Mawela said that 167 of the victims were women, while 47 were children. The rest were men.
According to Mawela, police also seized 1 877 illegal, unlicensed and stolen firearms, 21 517 rounds of ammunition, and 1 244 dangerous weapons during their targeted crime intelligence-led operations, vehicle checkpoints, and stop and searches. "The category of contact-related crimes, which comprises arson and malicious property damage, was reduced by 1.8%. For the period under review, we were also able to arrest 2 318 suspects.
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