CRIME STATISTICS: INTEGRITY

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has accepted a new and challeging objective of ensuring that its crime statistics are in line with international best practice. This will be achieved through a Memorandum of Understanding with Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), aimed at further enhancing the quality and integrity of the South African crime statistics.

The crime statistics generated by SAPS are an important link in the value chain of the statistics system informs policy development and planning in the criminl justice system. The collaboration with StatsSA will go a long way in enhancing the integrity of the SAPS crime statistics and ensuring that policy-makers have quality data to assist them with making policy decisions.

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2018/2019 Crime Stats Presentation