AfriForum’s Jacques Broodryk

AfriForum urges the South African Police Service to collaborate closely with neighbourhood watches and other security agencies to combat rising crime. The call follows revelations of a severe shortage of eight-thousand-500 detectives and a backlog of unsolved cases. AfriForum’s Jacques Broodryk says recent figures reveal that over 80-thousand murder and 61-thousand rape cases have been closed without resolution due to insufficient manpower and inadequate resources: