TABLE 1
Percentage change in the number of crimes recorded, for two four-year periods between 1994 and 2000

TABLE 2
Percentage change in selected crime in the Port Elizabeth police area

TABLE 3
Port Elizabeth Court Centre services and objectives

List of Figures

FIGURE 1
Percentage change in the number of crimes recorded in South Africa, 1994–2000 and 1999–2000

FIGURE 2
Recorded crime rate in selected urban police areas, 2000

FIGURE 3
Recorded rape and assault GBH in selected urban police areas, 2000

FIGURE 4
Cases resulting in a conviction as a proportion of cases prosecuted in South Africa, 2000

FIGURE 5
Cases processed by the prosecution service, 1996–2001

FIGURE 6
Number of cases finalised with a verdict in district and regional magistrates’ courts in South Africa, 1999–2001

FIGURE 7
Number of lower court cases outstanding nationally at end of year, 1999–2001

FIGURE 8
Average number of days unsentenced prisoners incarcerated nationally, 1999–2001

FIGURE 9
Changes in prisoner numbers, 1994–2001

FIGURE 10
Prison occupancy levels (%) by province, December 2001

FIGURE 11
Number of prisoners who have escaped from prison and SAPS holding cells nationally, 1996–2000

FIGURE 12
Number of children (<18 years) in custody nationally, 1995–2001

FIGURE 13
Incarcerated prisoners granted bail according to bail amount set, August 2001

FIGURE 14
Cases processed by the PE Court Centre, and cases ready for trial during 2001

FIGURE 15
Cases trial ready as a proportion of cases processed by the PE Court Centre during 2001

FIGURE 16
Case cycle time for PE Court Centre cases processed during 2001

FIGURE 17
Average number of days between first court appearance of accused and trial readiness of case during 2001(PE Court Centre)

FIGURE 18
Accused processed by the PE Pre-Trial Services Centre during 2001

FIGURE 19
Proportion of accused processed by the PE Pre-Trial Services Centre and granted bail during 2001

FIGURE 20
Reasons for the early finalisation of cases involving incarcerated awaiting trial accused, PE Court Centre, April 1999–March 2002

FIGURE 21
Changing levels of unsentenced prisoners at St Albans prison and nationally, 2000–2001

FIGURE 22
Convictions as a proportion of prosecutions in cases processed by the PE Court Centre during 2001

FIGURE 23
Courts where respondents said their cases had not been postponed, 2001