Johannesburg - There were 1 907 protests in 2013/14 that were not peaceful, national police commissioner Riah Phiyega said on Friday.
She said 11 601 protests were peaceful.
The most protests were in Gauteng, followed by the Eastern Cape, she said.
Phiyega said trio crimes have increased by 10.8 percent and remain “stubborn”.
“They remain stubborn... overall they continue to increase,” she said.
Trio crimes are crimes relating to personal safety and business, such as house robbery, business robbery and carjacking.
In the past year, carjacking saw a 12.3 percent increase, truck hijacking a 12.1 percent increase, robbery a 13.7 percent increase, and robbery in residential areas a 7.4 percent increase, said Phiyega.
“Trio crimes are packaged differently because Cabinet is keen to know how these are doing.”
Over the past 10 years, the trio crimes group increased by 95.3 percent; and by four percent over the past five years.
Bank robberies increased by 200 percent in the 2013/2014 financial year, Phiyega said.
“Bank robbery went from seven to 21, with Gauteng contributing to most of them,” she said.
Gauteng had 11 bank robberies, the Eastern Cape five, KwaZulu-Natal two and the Free State three.
Drug-related crimes have increased by 26.1 percent in the 2013/14 financial year, Phiyega said.
“The concerning issue is that it appears that when this is on the increase, we need to deal with the consumers,” she said.
She said consumers encouraged supply.
The detected increase showed better policing, she said.
Drug-related crimes increased by 210.4 percent over the past 10 years.
Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs decreased by 1.8 percent in the past year; and by 133.1 percent over the past 10 years.
Arson dropped by 4.2 percent and malicious damage to property went down by 1.1 percent.
Phiyega said there was an overall decrease in property-related crime of 0.2 percent.
Within this category, residential housebreaking dropped by 0.6 percent, motor vehicle theft decreased by 0.6 percent, theft out of a motor vehicle increased by three percent and stock theft decreased by 6.2 percent.
Commercial crimes dropped by 13.6 percent and shoplifting decreased by 1.1 percent.
Sapa