Open Data South Africa Toolkit
  • Introduction
  • How can I activate a local data community?
  • How can government manage data for social impact?
  • Applications and tools
  • Open data resources
    • Working with spatial data in South Africa
    • Spatial, land and infrastructure data resources
    • Water, sanitation and climate data resources
    • Public finance and governance data resources
    • Company and private investment data resources
    • Healthcare data resources
    • Air quality data resources
    • Education data resources
    • Demographic and survey data resources
    • Police & defence data resources
    • Cultural and heritage data resources
    • Economy, employment, trade and industry data resources
    • Agriculture data resources
    • Media and democracy data resources
  • Activities and notices
    • Cultural Data Hackathon
    • Notice: Data extracts from NHI Bill
    • Notice: Data extracts from Land Reform Report
    • Challenge: Healthy Environment
    • Challenge: Spatial Transformation
    • Challenge: Accessible Healthcare
    • Campaign: Countering misinformation on social media
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Police & defence data resources

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Last updated 4 years ago

We are starting to collect policing, defence and other safety/ security-related data. Feel free Tweet us if you have anything to suggest.

Police and crime

Being with the official South African Police Service (SAPS) and . See these example extracts of and .

Then also look at the Stats SA (the data is available on as usual) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) .

The South African Banking Risk Information Centre () compiles their own statistics from members which you can probably request from them, and you may want to enquire with national and industry business associations to see if they collect data.

Finally, we suggest reviewing by AfricaCheck on analysing crime rates in South Africa.

Protests

See this useful about protests data.

Then see the for 2013 to 2018 sourced through PAIA request.

generates a Protests per Capita Index.

hosts a for South Africa.

ISS also creates a

and have previously produced a .

crime statistics
police station boundaries
coordinates
boundaries
victims of crime survey
Nesstar
Crime Hub
SABRIC
this article
paper
SAPS Incident Registration Information System (IRIS) data
@SAHAnews
@MunicipalIQ
@ACLEDINFO
Political Violence and Protest Dashboard
Public protest and violence map
@AppliedCSL
@UWC_DOI
Civic Protest Barometer