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The South African Police Service's annual report recorded 25,204 murders in 2021/22, an increase of 26.6% from the 19,904 recorded in 2020/21. Of the victims, 3,198 were women and 20,924 were men. The South African Police Service's latest crime statistics covering January to March 2023 recorded 6...

The South African Police Service's annual report recorded 25,204 murders in 2021/22, an increase of 26.6% from the 19,904 recorded in 2020/21. Of these, 3,198 were women. That’s an average of about nine women murdered every day. ​​Compared to other countries for which statistics are availab...

The South African Police Service's annual report recorded 25,204 murders in 2021/22, an increase of 26.6% on the 19,904 recorded in 2020/21. Of the victims, 3,198 were women and 1,082 were children. Crimes committed against women increased, by 15.6% from 155,062, in 2020/21 to 179,208, in 2021/...

Sub-Saharan Africa saw the largest increase in terrorism deaths, rising by 8% from 2021. 60%, or 4,023, of all deaths from terrorism globally occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Four of the ten countries with the greatest deterioration in Global Terrorism Index (GTI) score are in sub-Saharan Africa: Tog...

The crime detection rate is a measure of “the successful investigation, positive identification, arrest and charging of the perpetrator”. The detection process covers the period from the opening of a police docket until a suspect is arrested and charged, or until the docket is closed as unfou...

The National Police Service’s annual crime report reported 81,272 criminal cases in 2021. Of these, assault was the most commonly reported with 15,969 cases. Theft was the second most reported category with 11,762 cases or 15%. Other penal code offences were the third most common category, account...

The Islamic State West Africa (ISWA) remains the deadliest terrorist group in Nigeria for the third year in a row. The group’s lethality rate increased for the first time in two years, from just over three deaths per attack in 2021 to 3.7 deaths per attack in 2022. ...

According to the latest homicide statistics from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 706 women were victims of femicide in Kenya in 2021. This works out to 2.64 per 100,000 women. ...

As of 31st December 2021, the total number of police officers in Kenya was 101,421. According to the World Bank, the population of Kenya in 2021 was 53.1 million. This means that one police officer served an average of 191 people in 2021. ...