Mawela presented the province’s fourth-quarter statistics to the legislature’s portfolio committee on community safety on Wednesday morning.

Mawela alluded that the province has recorded an overall increase in crime of over 2,000 counts as murder, attempted sexual assaults and cash-in-transit robberies are among the crimes highlighted in red in the latest crime report.

Between January and March this year, 153 more people were murdered in the province compared to the same people last year, while 82 sexual offences were reported in the same period(18 more than this time last year).

Mawela furthermore stated that Gauteng's contribution towards the national figure would always remain high considering the characteristics and profile of the province. 

We look at our province’s largest population in hindsight of the complex dynamics attributing to the challenges in respect of our socioeconomic factors however, we have never been deterred from fulfilling our constitutional mandate so we will always strive to make this province safe and secure for all its inhabitants," Mawela said.

The province also recorded 27 cash-in-transit robberies in just three months, five more than in the same period last year.