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Gauteng crime stats: Alarming rise in kidnappings
The Star
|March 06, 2026
REMAINS CONCERN
GAUTENG Provincial Commissioner Major General Tommy Mthombeni presented the province's crime statistics for the third quarter ending December 2025. I TIMOTHY BERNARD Independent Newspapers
(TIMOTHY BERNARD Independent Newspapers)
WHILE Gauteng Provincial Police Commissioner, Major General Tommy Mthombeni, noted a marginal decrease of 8 253 counts of crime for the 3rd quarter ending December 2025, the police commissioner stated that he remains concerned by incidents of kidnapping and hijacking.
The province reported some decreases in contact crimes such as murder, attempted murder, and assault and robbery, while seeing a 2.1% increase in kidnappings, during the period under review.
Last month, Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officers arrested kidnapping suspects and rescued a Lenasia businessman in Soweto.
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