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CRIME RESEARCH AND STATISTICS - SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE 2011 STATS

Theft of Motor Vehicle & Motorcycle Reported Cases
	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007	2007/2008	2008/2009	2009/2010	2010/2011
RSA	13 793	12 434	12 825	13 599	14 201	14 915	13 902	10 627
Percentage difference on reported cases
	2003/2004// 2004/2005	2004/2005// 2005/2006	2005/2006// 2006/2007	2006/2007// 2007/2008	2007/2008// 2008/2009	2008/2009// 2009/2010	2009/2010// 2010/2011	2003/2004// 2010/2011
RSA	-9.9%	3.1%	6.0%	4.4%	5.0%	-6.8%	-23.6%	-23.0%

Carjacking Reported Cases
	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007	2007/2008	2008/2009	2009/2010	2010/2011
RSA	13 793	12 434	12 825	13 599	14 201	14 915	13 902	10 627
Percentage difference on reported cases
	2003/2004// 2004/2005	2004/2005// 2005/2006	2005/2006// 2006/2007	2006/2007// 2007/2008	2007/2008// 2008/2009	2008/2009// 2009/2010	2009/2010// 2010/2011	2003/2004// 2010/2011
RSA	-9.9%	3.1%	6.0%	4.4%	5.0%	-6.8%	-23.6%	-23.0%

Truckjacking Reported Cases
	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007	2007/2008	2008/2009	2009/2010	2010/2011
RSA	901	930	829	892	1 245	1 437	1 412	999
Percentage difference on reported cases
	2003/2004// 2004/2005	2004/2005// 2005/2006	2005/2006// 2006/2007	2006/2007// 2007/2008	2007/2008// 2008/2009	2008/2009// 2009/2010	2009/2010// 2010/2011	2003/2004// 2010/2011
RSA	3.2%	-10.9%	7.6%	39.6%	15.4%	-1.7%	-29.2%	10.9%

 

Information on theft and hijacking in South Africa - January 2010

Vehicles are being stolen or hijacked for the following reasons:

Info update 1st January 2010

• Resold locally 60%
• Export 30%
• Spare parts (chop shops) 10%

Interesting statistics:

• SAPS have to crush between 12, 000 and 16, 000 recovered vehicles annually due to the fact that their original identity is impossible to ascertain. Estimated cost to the RSA economy R1.2 Billion
  • Note that no Nissan, BMW and Toyota Quantum vehicles dotted as part of the manufactured process would have been part of this waste
• There are an estimated 2 Million stolen vehicles driving on South African roads
• It is believed that there are actually about 10 million cars on our roads. This is 2 million more than the official number of 8 million. This represents billions in lost revenue to licensing authorities. These vehicles would be cloned / duplicated vehicles
• There are now more than 750,000 vehicles DataDotted on our roads
• Only 35% of vehicles on South African roads are insured

Officers trained and equipped

• 10254 police officers have been trained as at the 31st of March 2010 by DataDot Technology SA
• 5347 Police Microdot kits have been donated by DataDot Technology SA to the SAPS as at the 31st of March 2010
  
  

DataDot Recovery and Theft Statistics

• There have been 8086 vehicles recovered by SAPS on which microdot technology was fitted. The estimated value of these vehicles is in excess of R1 Billion.
• There have been a minimum of 919 vehicles recovered by SAPS using microdot technology only i.e. where all other identifiers had been removed. This figure relates to those that are reported to DataDot or where DataDot personnel have assisted the SAPS.

From SAPS Annual Report dated 31/07/2009

The average recovery rate for stolen and robbed vehicles was 46%, which implies that the national target of recovering 46% stolen and robbed vehicles had been achieved.

Over the past three financial years, an average of 91 000 vehicles had been stolen and robbed in South Africa annually. One of the reasons for the high theft rate is that South Africa is the only country on the African continent that manufactures vehicles. During the reporting period 86 579 vehicles were stolen and robbed (compared to 88 941 in 2007/2008). Of these, 51% (excluding stolen/robbed military police vehicles) were stolen and robbed in Gauteng. 39 838 vehicles were recovered including vehicles which were stolen or robbed during previous financial years.

The recovery rate of stolen vehicles (including recoveries that had been reported as stolen before the reporting period) was 40.9% (28 019 recovered). The low recovery rate of stolen vehicles can be attributed to the fact that syndicates easily remove vehicle identifiers such as Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN), engine numbers and registration numbers.

The recovery rate of robbed vehicles (including recoveries that had been reported as robbed before the reporting period) was 65.3% (11 819 recovered). The high recovery rate of robbed vehicles can be attributed to the constant enhancement of anti-theft devices fitted by manufacturers (insurance companies insist that vehicles be fitted with tracking devices). New vehicles can also be more identifiable as manufacturers are using improved identification features such as microdotting.