Police Oversight and Community Safety:
With regard to the release of the Police Recorded Crime Statistics for the fourth quarter of the 2021/22 financial year (January to March 2022):
(1) (a) What is the cause of the increase in the 17 community-reported serious crimes in the province, (b) in which communities were these increases recorded and (c) what are the detailed programmes that his Department implemented to address these crimes in each of the communities where the 17 community-reported serious crimes were reported;
(2) what is the trend of contact crimes in each police station in the province during the period under review for (i) murder, (ii) attempted murder and (iii) sexual offences, especially (aa) rape and (bb) sexual assault?
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