# The Western Cape recorded a drop in several serious crimes between April and June. Contact crime fell by 6.3-percent, murder by 6.7-percent, carjacking by 14.6-percent and house robbery by 15-percent. At stations targeted by Operation Prosper, contact crime dropped by 12.1-percent and murder by 16.8 percent. However, rape and sexual assault increased. The provincial police commissioner Sizakhele Dyantyi says the fight against gender-based violence and illegal firearms remains a priority.
Western Cape records drop in serious and violent crime