At 3pm on Workers day, thieves attempted to rob  a home being built for the Soweto Canoe and Recreational Club (SCARC) in Albertskroon. The home is to serve as a live in club house for underprivileged children who are part of SCARC. 

NICRO, the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders, has joined forces with the South African Breweries (SAB) to launch a unique alcohol and road offences initiative to tackle the challenges of drunk driving at a range of levels.

The Department of Justice and Reconciliation plans to publish the names and details of those people convicted of corruption in pamphlets, newspapers and through radio advertisements, among others, the Minister of Justice and Reconciliation Jeff Radebe said on Sunday.

The Operation Duty Calls National Festive Season Crime-Fighting campaign has so far been a success with over 67 000 suspects arrested in all nine provinces, says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.

Government has commended and expressed its appreciation for the role played by communities in assisting the South African Police Service in their fight against crime.

Proudly South African has congratulated Head of Crime Line, Yusuf Abramjee, on his recent appointment as the second Vice-President of Crime Stoppers International (CSI) during the body's 33rd annual conference in Las Vegas, USA.

Attacks on the Table Mountain chain and related areas have dropped by at least half compared to the same time last year, the Cape Times reported on Tuesday.

Recidivism - the term used to refer to the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested - has been a contentious issue of late, when 37,783 offenders were released from May 15 2012 after President Jacob Zuma decided to grant special remission of sentence to certain categories of offenders.

Central to FNB’s vision of helping to create a better world, lies a deep understanding of supporting and strengthening community initiatives that build social cohesion and promote equality within communities. One such beneficiary is NICRO (National Institute for Crime Prevention and the reintegration of Offenders), which provides services to adults and children in conflict with the law.

Anonymous tip-off service Crime Line contributed to 3000 arrests since it was started five years ago, its co-founder said on Tuesday.

There has been a general decrease in crime levels for the period January to March 2012 when compared to the previous quarter, says Justice Minister Jeff Radebe.

South Africa has seen an overall decrease in serious crime from approximately 3,800 to approximately 3,600 per 100,000 of the population between 2010 and 2011.

Edcon, together with Independent newspapers presented the town of Bloemfontein, Free State with a state-of-the-art mobile policing unit on Thursday, 10 May, as part of a wider ‘Partnership Against Crime’ initiative designed to assist the South African Police Service (SAPS) in serving the community.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has called on law-abiding citizens to stop buying stolen goods. Speaking at the national launch of the Second-Hand Goods Act in Limpopo on Monday, the minister warned that with the Act, which came into effect earlier this month, the buyer of stolen goods was as guilty at the criminal who stole the goods.

A voluntary crime fighting initiative started by a proactive group of people in Mpumalanga’s Mbombela Municipality has drastically improved safety in the area and has been pivotal in making police efforts more effective.

The Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster has revealed that serious crime levels have declined by 5% in the last three years. The cluster, led by Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe, addressed the media on Sunday, giving an update of the cluster's ongoing work.

The fight against corruption got some heavy artillery yesterday with the launch of Corruption Watch, an independent civil society institute formed to enable South Africans to report and confront corrupt activity in both the public and private sectors.

Police have announced a partnership with the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) to deal with cash-in-transit robberies. A joint operational centre had been established to monitor cash delivery vehicles and swiftly respond to potential attacks, Hawks head Lt-Gen Anwar Dramat told reporters on Thursday.

South African banks Absa and FNB have introduced biometric identification and verification system at their branches as part of an industry-wide initiative that will allow the country's banks to conduct online fingerprint verification of its clients.

The success of South Africa's anonymous crime tip-off services have once again been showcased on the international stage at the annual conference of Crime Stoppers International (CSI) in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

A whistle-blowing campaign was launched in Cape Town on Monday with a call to create a culture of exposing corruption.

Nearly 20,000 drunk drivers have been arrested across South Africa over the past eleven months.

South African justice is going high-tech with a system that will prevent meddling with case files, high court Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann said on Thursday.

The R2.1-million in pledges to the Widows and Orphans Fund for Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) is nearing its goal, with over R1.8-million in the bank so far.

South Africa's murder rate dropped by 6.5% to 15,940 murders in 2010/11, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Thursday.