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PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE. FREE STATE PROVINCE - PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2010-2011 LIEUTENANT GENERAL SITOLE. CONTENTS. Provincial profile Performance overview 2010 – 2011 Performance challenges Border Policing, hot spots and challenges Intervention Strategies
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PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE FREE STATE PROVINCE - PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2010-2011 LIEUTENANT GENERAL SITOLE
CONTENTS • Provincial profile • Performance overview 2010 – 2011 • Performance challenges • Border Policing, hot spots and challenges • Intervention Strategies • Current situation (September to December 2011
PROVINCIAL PICTURE TOTAL FOR CRIME CATEGORIES
TARGET 4 – 7% CONTACT CRIMES
OTHER SERIOUS CRIMES TARGET 1 – 4%
TRIO CRIMES TARGET 4 – 7 %
STATION PICTURE (TOP 12 STATIONS) TRIO + TRUCK HI-JACKINGS
DETECTIVE PERFORMANCE 2010 - 2011
Contributing Factors • 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 Factors • 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 Factors • 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.
ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS STOLEN VEHICLE CROSSING POINTS N3 N1 RED = HOT SPOT North West N1 N8
BORDERLINE CHALLENGES • Borderline fence is severely damaged and in many parts removed • Illegal crossing points with shops / gates • Illegal labour practices – use of illegal immigrants by farmers • Poor condition of roads • Illegal grazing
INTERVENTION STRATEGIES • 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 Strategies • 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 Strategies • 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