Question NW2339 to the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

Reply:

Regarding the Organised crime

The organised crime statistics reflected relate to those cases within the ambit of the Organised Crime component. The NPA does not intend to measure the crime but rather the effectiveness and performance of the components dealing with the more serious and complicated cases of organised crime. The focus of this component includes:

• Bank robberies, cash-in-transit heists, car and truck hijacking; business robberies, syndicate house robberies and ATM attacks;
• Trafficking in Precious Metals, and Diamonds;
• Non- Ferrous metals; (SEC 3 OF ACT 18 OF 2015 - Offence relating to essential infrastructure)
• Endangered species;
• Drug trafficking;
• Human Trafficking;
• Gang related matters under POCA;
• Racketeering and money laundering offences;
• Any other investigations referred to OCIU by SAPS management

Regarding the House Robberies

Investigations on house robberies, similar to most other serious crimes, take some time to finalise and then also take quite a substantial time to be finalised once the trial has started. On average, these cases last between 12 to 24 months to be finalised. If there is an increase of these cases during the 2016/17 financial year, this will only reflect from the following year in the court performance data. NPA performance on house robberies finalised during 2015/16 was in line with the trend by the SAPS as reflected during their 2014/15 financial year, which has in fact shown a decline for the previous three successive years. The following is an extract from the SAPS Annual Report information for 2014/15:

											15	Comparison 2013-2014 with 2014-2015
	Province	April 2005 to March 2006	April 2006 to March 2007	April 2007 to March 2008	April 2008 to March 2009	April 2009 to March 2010	April 2010 to March 2011	April 2011 to March 2012	April 2012 to March 2013	April 2013 to March 2014	April 2014 to March 2015	Case Diff	% Change	% Contribution
1	Gauteng	74990	67643	63559	68961	74429	70447	64475	68296	67988	66172	-1816	-2,7%	26,1%
2	Western Cape	40837	43011	42239	42792	43171	43685	44494	49509	50503	47783	-2720	-5,4%	18,8%
3	KwaZulu-Natal	40631	39486	36898	37515	40231	39439	41010	45404	43969	43274	-695	-1,6%	17,1%
4	Eastern Cape	32978	31421	29346	28380	28233	27086	26825	25782	24643	24329	-314	-1,3%	9,6%
5	Mpumalanga	20305	19444	18785	19766	19206	18026	18117	18777	18489	18183	-306	-1,7%	7,2%
6	Limpopo	12768	12346	11790	12332	13936	13376	15225	14851	16477	16466	-11	-0,1%	6,5%
7	North West	15463	13684	13576	14277	14859	14740	14569	15705	15388	15687	299	1,9%	6,2%
8	Free State	17353	15939	15545	16040	15682	14828	15101	17284	16314	15618	-696	-4,3%	6,2%
9	Northern Cape	6078	5488	4900	5402	5531	4985	4851	5711	6013	6204	191	3,2%	2,4%
	South Africa	261402	248462	236638	245465	255278	246612	244667	261319	259784	253716	-6068	-2,3%