What external challenges do the police face in achieving further reductions of crime levels in South Africa?
• Continuously reducing the incidence of crime, particularly contact crime, despite overall population increases and South Africa’s growing exposure to the international community; • The sustaining of emphasis placed on the implementation of sector policing in all station areas but accenting implementation in identified high crime station areas; • Developing partnerships with all sectors of society in the fight against crime, including the private sector; • Improving inter-departmental cooperation, particularly with those departments that constitute the JCPS (Justice, Crime Prevention and Security) Cluster, in order to address those factors that trigger crime; • Contributing towards development and capacity building in Africa through NEPAD by assisting African countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Rwanda and the Comoros in the establishing of an effective and efficient policing service; and • Developing planning for the policing and securing of the 2010 FIFA Wo