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Independent Online - Cape Town
10 March 2007
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'Public doesn't trust police o
South Africans don't have much faith in either the police or the government on the question of crime. In fact, their level of trust is among the lowest in Africa.
This is according to Professor Robert Mattes, the director at the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, who was speaking at a seminar in Pretoria on Friday.
Organised by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), it focused on crime trends and public perceptions.
Mattes said the police were still seen as one of the least trustworthy institutions in the country, ahead only of local councils and opposition parties. He said most people found it difficult to get help from the police - the low levels of satisfaction were unchanged from those measured four years ago.
Also, one in 10 people said they had been victimised by the police in the past year.
Research indicated that the public's perception of corruption in the police and other government institutions was becoming worse.
Almost half of all citizens thought that most police officials were involved in corruption, with some citizens having admitted to paying bribes.
Antoinette Louw, a senior researcher at the ISS, said a number of factors had sparked the current crime wave, or the perception of one.
These included an increase in certain violent high-profile crimes, and robberies in busy public places.
She said home robberies, however, had by far the most severe impact as they had become more frequent and more violent. This was because the home was perceived to be the safest place, where violence such as rape and torture was least expected.
Another factor, said Louw, was that police and government leadership had given negative public responses to crime, and that police were dismissive rather than empathetic.
The research also showed that although levels of reported crime had not changed in the past four years, these levels were far higher than what was reflected in official police records.
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