FREE STATE PROVINCE - PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2010-2011 LIEUTENANT GENERAL SITOLE PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE.

FREE STATE PROVINCE - PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2010-2011

LIEUTENANT GENERAL SITOLE

PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

CONTENTS2

1. Provincial profile2. Performance overview 2010 – 20113. Performance challenges 4. Border Policing, hot spots and challenges5. Intervention Strategies6. Current situation (September to

December 2011

Provincial Profile

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Size 129 480 square kilometres

Number of Police Stations 110

Number of active satellites 27

Number of Clusters 18

Population 2 759 644 (mid – year estimates 2010)

Total Establishment 11 981 (31 March 2011)

SAPS Act 9 739

PSA 2242

Police / population ratio 1 : 283

Classified High Contact Crime Stations

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Presidential Station 1 (Thabong)

Presidential Node 1 (Qwa Qwa - )

PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW2010 - 2011

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PROVINCIAL PICTURETOTAL FOR CRIME CATEGORIES

Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

CONTACT CRIMES 49041 47594 -1447 -2.95%

PROPERTY RELATED CRIMES 33339 31309 -2030 -6.09%

CRIMES DEPENDENT ON POLICE ACTION

7095 6127 -968 -13.64%

CONTACT RELATED CRIMES 9556 9153 -403 -4.22%

OTHER SERIOUS CRIMES 28938 27997 -941 -3.25%

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Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

Murder 910 963 53 5.82%

Attempted murder 845 770 -75 -8.88%

Rape 3333 3604 271 8.13%

Sexual Assault 505 629 124 24.55%

Contact Sexual Offences 440 348 -92 -20.91%

Attempted Sexual Offences 303 257 -46 -15.18%

Sexual Offences: As result of Police action

0 0 0 #DIV/0!

Assault with the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm

15745 15439 -306 -1.94%

Common assault 19016 17934 -1082 -5.69%Robbery with aggravating circumstances

4969 4853 -116 -2.33%

Common robbery 2975 2797 -178 -5.98%

CONTACT CRIMES 49041 47594 -1447 -2.95%

CONTACT CRIMES

Contributing Stations 8

CLUSTER/STATION Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

CLUSTER/STATION Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011CASE DIFF

% DIFF

PARKWEG CONTACT CRIMES 3069 2734 -335 -10.92%

BLOEMSPRUIT CONTACT CRIMES 2258 2461 203 8.99%

THABONG CONTACT CRIMES 2496 2423 -73 -2.92%

KAGISANONG CONTACT CRIMES 2001 1905 -96 -4.80%

SASOLBURG CONTACT CRIMES 1996 1717 -279 -13.98%

BETHLEHEM CONTACT CRIMES 1816 1650 -166 -9.14%

BOITHUSO CONTACT CRIMES 1490 1585 95 6.38%

BOTSHABELO CONTACT CRIMES 1589 1504 -85 -5.35%

WELKOM CONTACT CRIMES 1551 1501 -50 -3.22%

MANGAUNG CONTACT CRIMES 1414 1416 2 0.14%

PROPERTY RELATED CRIMES

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Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

Burglary at residential premises 15825 14927 -898 -5.67%

Burglary at business premises 5197 5110 -87 -1.67%

Theft of motor vehicle and motorcycle 2429 2218 -211 -8.69%

Theft out of or from motor vehicle 4855 4403 -452 -9.31%

Stock-theft 5033 4651 -382 -7.59%

PROPERTY RELATED CRIMES 33339 31309 -2030 -6.09%

CRIMES DEPENDENT ON POLICE ACTION FOR DETECTION

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Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

Drug-related crime 5110 4209 -901 -17.63%

Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs

1653 1583 -70 -4.23%

Illegal possession of firearms and ammunition

332 335 3 0.90%

CRIMES DEPENDENT ON POLICE ACTION

7095 6127 -968 -13.64%

Contributing Stations14

STATION APRIL - MARCH

STATION 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

PARKWEG 518 409 -109 -21.04%

THABONG 340 314 -26 -7.65%

WELKOM 289 245 -44 -15.22%

BOTSHABELO 183 217 34 18.58%

SASOLBURG 307 212 -95 -30.94%

SELOSESHA 241 212 -29 -12.03%

BOITHUSO 298 190 -108 -36.24%

PHUTHADITJHABA 246 171 -75 -30.49%

BLOEMSPRUIT 141 168 27 19.15%

BETHLEHEM 259 165 -94 -36.29%

Contact Related Crime15

Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

Malicious damage to property 9156 8,779 -377 -4.12%

Arson 400 374 -26 -6.50%

CONTACT RELATED CRIMES 9556 9,153 -403 -4.22%

Contributing Stations17

STATION APRIL - MARCH

STATIONS 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

SASOLBURG 522 507 -15 -2.87%

PARKWEG 647 443 -204 -31.53%

BLOEMSPRUIT 449 437 -12 -2.67%

WELKOM 431 416 -15 -3.48%

BETHLEHEM 475 400 -75 -15.79%

KAGISANONG 368 379 11 2.99%

THABONG 331 337 6 1.81%

BOTSHABELO 283 336 53 18.73%

MANGAUNG 304 294 -10 -3.29%

PHUTHADITJHABA 270 282 12 4.44%

OTHER SERIOUS CRIMES

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Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

Commercial crime 3498 4730 1232 35.22%

Shoplifting 3597 3284 -313 -8.70%

All theft not mentioned elsewhere 21843 19983 -1860 -8.52%

OTHER SERIOUS CRIMES 28938 27997 -941 -3.25%

TARGET1 – 4%

Contributing Stations20

STATION APRIL - MARCH

STATION 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

PARKWEG 5268 5,392 124 2.35%

WELKOM 2908 2,865 -43 -1.48%

SASOLBURG 1383 1,268 -115 -8.32%

BETHLEHEM 1266 1,169 -97 -7.66%

PHUTHADITJHABA 852 910 58 6.81%

KROONSTAD 789 851 62 7.86%

HARRISMITH 656 763 107 16.31%

BLOEMSPRUIT 839 743 -96 -11.44%

KAGISANONG 663 655 -8 -1.21%

HEIDEDAL 693 654 -39 -5.63%

Aggravated Robbery – Sub Categories

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Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

Carjacking 316 234 -82 -25.95%

Truck hijacking 67 27 -40 -59.70%

Robbery of cash in transit 16 8 -8 -50.00%

Bank robbery 7 2 -5 -71.43%

Robbery at residential premises 535 637 102 19.07%

Robbery at business premises 873 1,024 151 17.30%

TOTAL FOR SUB-CATEGORIES OF AGG ROBBERY

1814 1,932 118 6.50%

TRIO CRIMES22

Crime Category APRIL - MARCH

Crime Category 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

Carjacking 316 234 -82 -25.95%

Truck hijacking 67 27 -40 -59.70%

Robbery at residential premises 535 637 102 19.07%

Robbery at business premises 873 1,024 151 17.30%

TOTAL TRIO CRIMES + TRUCK JACKINGS

1791 1,922 131 7.31%

TARGET4 – 7 %

STATION PICTURE (TOP 12 STATIONS) TRIO + TRUCK HI-JACKINGS

CLUSTER /STATION APRIL - MARCH

CLUSTER/STATION 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

PARKWEG 179 147 -32 -17.88%

WELKOM 109 132 23 21.10%

BLOEMSPRUIT 106 126 20 18.87%

SASOLBURG 110 105 -5 -4.55%

THABONG 97 83 -14 -14.43%

HARRISMITH 65 73 8 12.31%

MANGAUNG 93 73 -20 -21.51%

BOTSHABELO 40 61 21 52.50%

MELODING 26 59 33 126.92%

ODENDAALSRUS 43 59 16 37.21%

PHUTHADITJHABA 55 56 1 1.82%

KOPANONG 60 54 -6 -10.00%

STATION PICTURE (TOP 12 STATIONS)

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CLUSTER /STATION APRIL - MARCH

CLUSTER/STATION 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

PARKWEG 42 42 0 0.00%

WELKOM 17 20 3 17.65%

SASOLBURG 23 19 -4 -17.39%

MANGAUNG 40 18 -22 -55.00%

BLOEMSPRUIT 19 14 -5 -26.32%

THABONG 11 11 0 0.00%

KAGISANONG 23 10 -13 -56.52%

KOPANONG 16 10 -6 -37.50%

PHUTHADITJHABA 12 10 -2 -16.67%

HEIDEDAL 10 6 -4 -40.00%

NAVALSIG 8 6 -2 -25.00%

VIRGINIA 8 6 -2 -25.00%

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STATIONS APRIL - MARCH

STATIONS 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

HARRISMITH 6 5 -1 -16.67%

WARDEN 5 5 0 0.00%

PARYS 1 3 2 200.00%

VILJOENSDRIF 2 3 1 50.00%

BETHLEHEM 2 2 0 0.00%

SASOLBURG 8 2 -6 -75.00%

CORNELIA 4 1 -3 -75.00%

ORANJEVILLE 0 1 1 #DIV/0!

PHUTHADITJHABA 0 1 1 #DIV/0!

VERKEERDEVLEI 0 1 1 #DIV/0!

VILLIERS 14 1 -13 -92.86%

VIRGINIA 0 1 1 #DIV/0!

WELKOM 1 1 0 0.00%

Contributing Stations

Contributing Stations30

STATIONS APRIL - MARCH

STATIONS 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

BLOEMSPRUIT 55 51 -4 -7.27%

PARKWEG 45 50 5 11.11%

THABONG 58 42 -16 -27.59%

SASOLBURG 20 40 20 100.00%

WELKOM 23 35 12 52.17%

KOPANONG 18 30 12 66.67%

MANGAUNG 26 29 3 11.54%

ODENDAALSRUS 12 28 16 133.33%

BOTSHABELO 8 21 13 162.50%

SELOSESHA 12 20 8 66.67%

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STATIONS APRIL - MARCH

STATIONS 2009/2010 2010/2011 CASE DIFF % DIFF

WELKOM 68 76 8 11.76%

BLOEMSPRUIT 31 61 30 96.77%

PARKWEG 91 55 -36 -39.56%

HARRISMITH 39 50 11 28.21%

SASOLBURG 59 44 -15 -25.42%

MELODING 11 40 29 263.64%

BOTSHABELO 26 36 10 38.46%

ODENDAALSRUS 27 31 4 14.81%

BOITHUSO 14 30 16 114.29%

THABONG 28 30 2 7.14%

Contributing Stations

DETECTIVE PERFORMANCE33

2010 - 2011

ALL RATES :Contact Crimes TRIO Crimes34

RATE COMPARISON

Fin Year Cases to Court Rate (%)

Detection Rate (%)

Conviction Rate (%)

2010/2011 26.78% 30.15% 25.08%

Cases to court Rate – The province has achieved the baseline (24.27% ) and target(24.81%).

Detection Rate – The province has achieved the baseline(27.32%) and target(27.82%).

Conviction Rate - The province has achieved baseline(10.35%) and target (11.41%)

All Rates : Property Related Crimes

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RATE COMPARISON

Fin Year Cases to Court Rate (%)

Detection Rate (%)

Conviction Rate (%)

2010/2011 15.06% 21.57% 43.41%

Cases to court Rate – The province has achieved baseline(14.29%) and target(14.65%).

Detection Rate – The province has achieved baseline(21.04%) and target(21.23%).

Conviction Rate - The province has achieved baseline(25.8%) and target(26.9%).

All Rates: Contact Related Crimes

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RATE COMPARISON

Fin Year Cases to Court Rate (%)

Detection Rate (%)

Conviction Rate (%)

2010/2011

37.54 56.75 50.86

Cases to court Rate – The province has achieved baseline(35.55%) and target(37.39%).

Detection Rate – The province has achieved baseline(56.47%) and not target(57.65%).

Conviction Rate - The province has achieved baseline(27.47%) and target(28.92%)

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CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

Contributing Factors38

Environmental design – poor infrastructure, roads / emergence of shacks (uncontrolled) / poor or no street lighting / lack of house numbering /open spaces.

Complainants tend to often withdraw cases stating that they do not have time to go to court (repeat offenders)

Lack of sufficient by- laws , opening of businesses by foreigners / illegal immigrants.

Contributing Factors39

Ever expanding informal settlement population places a strain on policing and resources, both human and physical.

Large number of vacant / disused /unused buildings.Increase in rapes – Bloemspruit / Sonskyn – increase

in reporting rates Increased number of Service Delivery actions –

foreigners are targeted / attacked. Illegal mining activity – Goldfields Cross border crime

Contributing Factors40

Increase number of rapes at Phuthaditjhaba– as a result of a serial rapist near the University. Coupled with rapes he was linked to robberies, theft, attempted murders. Arrested and linked to 13 rapes and robberies.

Increase in Trio – crimes (business robberies) – 41 Awaiting Trial Prisoners escaped from Harrismith. Upon arrest, they were linked to business robberies.

Border Policing Hot Spots and

Challenges

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ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS

STOLEN VEHICLECROSSING POINTS

RED = HOT SPOT

N1

N1

N8

N3

North West

BORDERLINE CHALLENGES 45

Borderline fence is severely damaged and in many parts removed

Illegal crossing points with shops / gates Illegal labour practices – use of illegal

immigrants by farmersPoor condition of roads Illegal grazing

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INTERVENTION

STRATEGIES

INTERVENTION STRATEGIES47

Implementation of the Turn Around Strategy :-

Re-alignment of accountability sessions – Stations to Clusters, weekly and bi-weekly / Clusters to Province –monthly and quarterly

Sustained visibility on the major routes

Sector policing project at Bloemspruit, Parkweg – benchmarking from Thabong, aimed at sustained visibility and collaborative interventions

Every Tuesday, Provincial Heads go to Clusters and stations – performance based interventions

Intervention Strategies48

Return and formalisation of the OCTA process- stations to undertake docket analysis

• Sustain project orientated task teams focussing on TRIO and priority crimes

Resource Management Committee established to address the strategic deployment and utilization of resources (human and physical)

Intervention Strategies49

Development of a multi agency Provincial Crime Prevention Strategy ( consultation process )

Project to address by-laws Stock Theft Project ( decrease in stock theft

cases) Project on FCS

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