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itchells Plain Police Station has dropped into second place in the country from last quarter for drug-related crime. This was revealed on Friday 22 May when police minister Firoz Cachalia released the fourth quarter’s national crime statistics. Nationally, serious crime is down, Cachalia announced. “I must also be clear; the levels of violence and criminality in South Africa remain far too high. A decrease in crime is not the same as achieving safety. The levels of crime are still unacceptably high, with 58 murders per day on average during this quarter,” Cachalia said.
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HOW LOCAL STATIONS COMPARE A total of 1 648 drug-related cases were reported in Mitchells Plain for January to March. This is a slight decrease of 44 cases, or 2,6%, compared with the same quarter the year before. The station also ranked second nationally for community-
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reported serious crime overall (1 861 cases), contact-related crime (190 cases), malicious damage to property (218 cases), common assault, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition (43 cases and 7 counts lower) while placing third for contact crimes (868 cases). Lentegeur Police Station retained its fifth-place national ranking in the fourth quarter for crimes detected as a result of police action, recording 751 cases, which is up by 34 cases, or 4,7%, for the same quarter last year. Strandfontein did not feature in the top rankings for any crime category. NATIONAL STATS Nationally, community-reported serious crime fell by 4,4% during the fourth quarter. TO PAGE 2
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