List of Tables, Figures and Maps


Published in Monograph No 73, May 2002

Leaner and Meaner? Restructuring the Detective Service


FIGURE 1: Management structure of the SAPS


TABLE 1: Budget of the SAPS by programme

TABLE 2: Budget of the SAPS by standard items of expenditure

TABLE 3: Detective service budget

TABLE 4: Detective service budget by standard items of expenditure

TABLE 5: Number of detectives and case loads by province, 1998

TABLE 6: Clearance rate in South Africa (%)

TABLE 7: Convictions as a ratio of cases brought to court in SA (%)

TABLE 8: Convictions calculated as a ratio of the number of recorded crimes in SA (%)

TABLE 9: Number of recorded murders and guilty verdicts, per detective, 2000

TABLE 10: Robberies, robbery convictions, and convictions per detective, 2000

TABLE 11: Housebreakings, housebreaking convictions and housebreaking guilty verdicts per detective, 2000

TABLE 12: Rapes, rape convictions and rape guilty verdicts per detective, 2000

TABLE 13: Detective case loads, by province, 1998

TABLE 14: Clearance rate for serious and less serious crime

TABLE 15: Convictions per case sent to court for serious and less serious crime

TABLE 16: Convictions per recorded crime for serious and less serious crime

TABLE 17: Requirements for new organised crime units, Western Cape

TABLE 18: Specialised units to be closed, Western Cape

TABLE 19: Change in level of reporting of cruelty towards children and rape, 1997-2000

TABLE 20: Budget of DSO and SAPS organised crime programmes compared

TABLE 21: National Prosecuting Authority budget, subprogrammes

TABLE 22: National Prosecuting Authority budget, standard items of expenditure


MAP 1: Number of people per SAPS member, 2001

MAP 2: Ratio of square kilometres per detective, 2001

MAP 3: Ratio of people per detective, 2001

MAP 4: Category ‘A’ crimes on hand per detective, 1998

MAP 5: Guilty verdicts per detective for murder cases, 2000

MAP 6: Guilty verdicts per detective for robbery cases, 2000

MAP 7: Guilty verdicts per detective for housebreaking cases, 2000

MAP 8: Guilty verdicts per detective for rape cases, 2000

MAP 9: Guilty verdicts for murder, robbery, housebreaking and rape per detective, 2000

MAP 10: Convictions per crime recorded (%) for cruelty towards children and rape combined, 2000

MAP 11: Convictions per court case (%) for cruelty towards children and rape combined, 2000

MAP 12: Convictions per recorded crime (%) for fraud, 2000

MAP 13: Convictions per court case for fraud, 2000