zaf-saps-sapsacr-2008-2023-v1.1 DataFirst 2025-02-03 Nesstar Publisher Version 1 South African Police Service Annual Crime Records 2008-2023 SAPSACR 2008-2023 zar-saps-sapsacr-2008-2023-v1.1 South African Police Service Nesstar Publisher DataFirst Other Version 1.1 Version 1.1 includes district and local municipality variables extracted from the StatsSA Police District shapefile for Census 2022. In accordance with the Section 218 (f) of the Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993 (Act No. 200 of 1993), the South African Police Service (SAPS) should enable the provision of crime intelligence data, criminal records and statistics on quartely and annual basis. The annual crime records cover crime perpetrated and reported to or detected by the police across all police stations in South Africa. The records include crime figures at station level that can be aggregated to both provincial and national levels. The crime records are divided into five broad crime categories, namely; contact crime, contact-related crime, property-related crime and other serious crime, making up the seventeen (17) serious types of crime reported to the police by the public, and crimes detected as a result of police actions. South Africa National coverage Police station level Other Administrative records The years in the data are tax years and run from 1st March to 28/29 February each year. Note that the 12 months that ends in February 2022 is considered the 2022 tax year, so 10 of the 12 months in the 2022 tax year are acutally in the 2021 calendar year. South African Police Service Other Crime Docket The crime docket is used as the main source document for official collection of offences in the SAPS. The data points found here represent the number of charges or counts and not the number of case dockets registered. One case docket can contain a single count of a specific offence, multiple counts of an offence or even several different types of offences. The recorded offences may involve one victim or complainant or multiple victims. If multiple offences are committed during a single crime incident, each offence will be recorded in addition to the primary offence. Thus, these additional counts also form part of the crime record (e. g. if murder and rape occurred during a house robbery incident, then all three crimes will appear in the crime records). Each observation is now a set of offence variables reported to SAPS at a specific (fixed or mobile) station in a given financial year, with corresponding GIS coordinates. This structure increases the utility of the dataset by enabling robust spatial and time-series analysis of the crime records. Some police stations only keep crime information for the last two financial years. Thus, there is missing data for the years before 2021 Output produced based on this dataset will only be released in line with the NT-SDF data checking policy. DataFirst South African Police Service. South African Police Service Annual Crime Records 2008-2023 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: South African Police Service (SAPS) [producer], 2023. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/5MAW-4H90 Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License sapacr-2008-2023-v1.1.NSDstat 17265 38 Nesstar 200801 fiscal year 17265 0 2008/2009 1151 2009/2010 1151 2010/2011 1151 2011/2012 1151 2012/2013 1151 2013/2014 1151 2014/2015 1151 2015/2016 1151 2016/2017 1151 2017/2018 1151 2018/2019 1151 2019/2020 1151 2020/2021 1151 2021/2022 1151 2022/2023 1151 police station 17265 0 local municipality 16980 0 !kheis 15 abaqulusi 75 alfred duma 90 amahlathi 120 ba-phalaborwa 60 beaufort west 45 bela-bela 45 bergrivier 75 big five hlabisa 45 bitou 30 blouberg 60 blue crane route 60 breede valley 60 buffalo city 300 bushbuckridge 75 cape agulhas 45 cederberg 75 chief albert luthuli 105 city of cape town 900 city of johannesburg 615 city of matlosana 105 city of mbombela 165 city of tshwane 540 collins chabane 75 dannhauser 75 dawid kruiper 90 dihlabeng 90 dikgatlong 60 dipaleseng 45 ditsobotla 60 dr beyers naude 120 dr js moroka 45 dr nkosazana dlamini zuma 60 dr pixley ka isaka seme 75 drakenstein 90 edumbe 15 ekurhuleni 540 elias motsoaledi 75 elundini 90 emadlangeni 60 emakhazeni 75 emalahleni 120 emfuleni 105 emthanjeni 60 endumeni 30 engcobo 30 enoch mgijima 210 ephraim mogale 45 ethekwini 630 fetakgomo tubatse 105 ga-segonyana 45 george 75 govan mbeki 135 great kei 45 greater giyani 15 greater kokstad 60 greater letaba 60 greater taung 60 greater tzaneen 60 hantam 75 hessequa 60 impendle 30 inkosi langalibalele 75 intsika yethu 30 inxuba yethemba 30 jb marks 75 joe morolong 120 jozini 45 kagisano/molopo 105 kai !garib 90 kamiesberg 45 kannaland 30 kareeberg 30 karoo hoogland 45 kgatelopele 30 kgetlengrivier 30 khâi-ma 30 king sabata dalindyebo 75 knysna 15 kopanong 165 kou-kamma 30 kouga 90 kwadukuza 30 laingsburg 15 langeberg 75 lekwa 60 lekwa-teemane 30 lepele-nkumpi 60 lephalale 75 lesedi 45 letsemeng 75 local municipality of madibeng 150 mafikeng 75 mafube 45 magareng 15 makana 105 makhado 150 makhuduthamaga 75 maluti a phofung 90 mamusa 45 mandeni 45 mangaung 270 mantsopa 75 maphumulo 15 maquassi hills 45 maruleng 30 masilonyana 60 matatiele 75 matjhabeng 135 matzikama 90 mbhashe 60 mbizana 60 merafong city 60 metsimaholo 75 mfolozi 15 mhlontlo 60 midvaal 90 mkhambathini 45 mkhondo 60 mnquma 75 modimolle-mookgophong 105 mogalakwena 75 mogale city 90 mohokare 60 molemole 45 moqhaka 90 moretele 45 moses kotane 45 mossel bay 60 mpofana 15 msinga 45 msukaligwa 90 mthonjaneni 15 mtubatuba 30 musina 60 nala 30 naledi 45 nama khoi 105 ndlambe 75 ndwedwe 45 nelson mandela bay 240 newcastle 45 ngqushwa 75 ngquza hill 60 ngwathe 90 nkandla 30 nketoana 75 nkomazi 105 nongoma 15 nqutu 45 ntabankulu 15 nyandeni 30 okhahlamba 75 oudtshoorn 45 overstrand 60 phokwane 45 phumelela 75 polokwane 105 port st johns 15 prince albert 15 ramotshere moiloa 75 rand west city 45 ratlou 75 ray nkonyeni 105 raymond mhlaba 165 renosterberg 45 richmond 30 richtersveld 30 rustenburg 120 sakhisizwe 15 saldanha bay 75 senqu 105 setsoto 60 siyancuma 75 siyathemba 30 sol plaatje 90 stellenbosch 75 steve tshwete 45 sundays river valley 90 swartland 60 swellendam 45 thaba chweu 90 thabazimbi 90 the msunduzi 105 theewaterskloof 75 thembelihle 15 thembisile 60 thulamela 75 tokologo 45 tsantsabane 30 tswaing 60 tswelopele 30 ubuhlebezwe 30 ubuntu 60 ulundi 75 umdoni 60 umhlabuyalingana 45 umhlathuze 60 umlalazi 75 umngeni 60 umshwathi 90 umsobomvu 60 umuziwabantu 15 umvoti 75 umzimkhulu 60 umzumbe 60 uphongolo 30 victor khanye 45 walter sisulu 120 witzenberg 60 district municipality 16980 0 alfred nzo 150 amajuba 180 amathole 540 bojanala 390 buffalo city 300 cape winelands 360 capricorn 270 central karoo 75 chris hani 375 city of cape town 900 city of johannesburg 615 city of tshwane 540 dr kenneth kaunda 225 dr ruth segomotsi mompati 285 ehlanzeni 435 ekurhuleni 540 ethekwini 630 fezile dabi 300 frances baard 210 garden route 315 gert sibande 570 harry gwala 210 ilembe 135 joe gqabi 315 john taolo gaetsewe 165 king cetshwayo 195 lejweleputswa 300 mangaung 270 mopani 225 namakwa 330 nelson mandela bay 240 ngaka modiri molema 345 nkangala 330 o.r.tambo 240 overberg 225 pixley ka seme 375 sarah baartman 570 sedibeng 240 sekhukhune 300 thabo mofutsanyane 465 ugu 240 umgungundlovu 375 umkhanyakude 165 umzinyathi 195 uthukela 240 vhembe 360 waterberg 390 west coast 375 west rand 195 xhariep 300 z f mgcawu 255 zululand 210 longitude coordinate 17265 0 latitude coordinate 17265 0 other theft not including vehicle and stock theft 17265 0 0 6803 281.023 441.489 arson cases 17265 0 0 59 4.205 5.843 assault with grievous bodily harm 17265 0 0 1658 154.61 172.151 attempted murder cases 17265 0 0 399 15.766 25.869 attempted sexual offences 17265 0 -1 45 2.345 3.311 bank robbery cases 17265 0 0 9 0.0193 0.184 burglary at non-residential premises 17265 0 0 918 60.808 80.313 burglary at residential premises 17265 0 0 2345 195.823 240.553 carjacking incidents 17265 0 0 554 12.877 30.249 commercial crime cases 17265 0 0 2870 71.602 155.888 common assault cases 17265 0 0 2810 147.811 209.809 common robbery cases 17265 0 0 1681 44.471 88.921 contact sexual offences 17265 0 1 93 1 51 1 2 44 1 3 13 46 4 2 1885 5 3 1254 6 0 7773 7 1 3492 8 4 737 9 5 515 10 6 329 11 8 161 12 7 245 13 49 6 14 27 14 15 17 32 16 10 90 17 9 133 18 11 88 19 14 47 20 26 8 21 31 10 22 20 28 23 53 1 24 139 1 25 54 2 26 21 16 27 25 11 28 57 2 29 22 17 30 29 9 31 19 28 32 12 70 33 15 31 34 33 5 35 34 2 36 16 30 37 18 22 38 24 12 39 46 1 40 102 1 41 118 1 42 72 3 43 65 3 44 41 2 45 30 7 46 47 1 47 23 13 48 35 4 49 36 4 50 42 1 51 37 5 52 90 1 53 200 1 54 77 1 55 58 4 56 52 2 57 206 1 58 209 1 59 32 7 60 192 1 61 530 1 62 99 1 63 81 1 64 166 1 65 108 1 66 104 1 67 59 1 68 -1 3 69 45 6 70 28 5 71 734 1 72 38 1 73 39 3 74 64 1 75 98 1 76 63 1 77 296 1 78 253 1 79 84 1 80 na 1 81 448 1 82 288 1 83 1203 1 84 221 1 85 230 1 86 43 1 87 55 1 88 157 1 89 161 1 90 66 1 91 928 1 92 797 1 93 631 1 driving under influence of alcohol (dui) 17265 0 0 2687 57.577 110.127 drug-related crimes 17265 0 0 6571 175.448 353.703 illegal possession of firearms 17265 0 0 275 12.898 21.982 kidnapping incidents 17265 0 1 128 1 na 5846 2 8 280 3 11 176 4 19 66 5 28 28 6 31 30 7 36 17 8 21 43 9 27 23 10 33 21 11 35 17 12 1 1750 13 0 3828 14 3 755 15 26 31 16 12 143 17 5 452 18 24 32 19 46 9 20 48 8 21 2 1013 22 6 372 23 4 580 24 9 194 25 7 287 26 15 91 27 13 118 28 10 172 29 20 51 30 25 36 31 45 7 32 60 4 33 53 10 34 75 2 35 130 1 36 16 103 37 14 101 38 17 89 39 23 33 40 61 6 41 43 10 42 22 40 43 18 59 44 32 28 45 95 3 46 236 1 47 58 6 48 34 17 49 82 3 50 88 5 51 30 23 52 116 4 53 41 12 54 37 10 55 40 8 56 42 9 57 85 1 58 137 1 59 174 2 60 51 7 61 63 5 62 44 6 63 67 6 64 38 9 65 29 15 66 39 8 67 50 11 68 54 5 69 57 4 70 66 9 71 74 3 72 68 7 73 114 2 74 153 3 75 70 3 76 56 6 77 52 5 78 90 1 79 78 3 80 135 1 81 65 3 82 120 1 83 124 1 84 62 3 85 125 3 86 110 2 87 96 1 88 105 2 89 84 1 90 47 6 91 49 3 92 59 3 93 161 1 94 148 1 95 55 2 96 175 1 97 69 3 98 79 1 99 97 1 100 64 2 101 77 6 102 91 2 103 89 1 104 109 1 105 122 1 106 87 1 107 164 1 108 86 2 109 101 2 110 100 1 111 158 1 112 121 1 113 98 2 114 81 1 115 165 1 116 71 1 117 129 1 118 133 1 119 182 1 120 76 2 121 80 1 122 106 1 123 102 1 124 154 1 125 177 1 126 92 1 127 93 1 128 113 1 malicious damage to property 17265 0 0 1647 101.317 136.613 murder cases 17265 0 0 349 16.651 26.131 rape cases 17265 0 0 446 37.554 43.859 robbery at non-residential premises 17265 0 0 287 15.643 23.382 robbery at residential premises 17265 0 0 484 17.407 31.663 cash-in-transit robbery 17265 0 0 21 0.171 0.599 robbery with aggravating circumstances 17265 0 0 2187 108.198 182.975 sexual assault cases 17265 0 -1 161 5.993 8.174 other sexual offences 17265 0 0 1371 48.5 56.575 sexual offences detected by police 17265 0 0 1084 4.366 34.477 shoplifting cases 17265 0 0 2570 57.159 132.531 stock theft cases 17265 0 0 406 23.389 32.247 motor vehicle theft 17265 0 0 1366 46.262 104.979 theft from vehicles 17265 0 -1 3956 104.483 223.673 truck hijacking incidents 17265 0 0 99 1.092 3.661