{
  "id": "crime-contact-q4",
  "title": "Contact crimes reported to the police, January to March",
  "description": "Contact crimes (crimes against the person) reported to SAPS in January to March 2026, the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year. SAPS counts murder, sexual offences, attempted murder, assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, common assault, common robbery and robbery with aggravating circumstances. One quarter, not a full year.",
  "unit": "cases",
  "category": "crime",
  "latest": {
    "value": 154267,
    "display": "154,267"
  },
  "source": {
    "publisher": "South African Police Service",
    "publication": "Crime statistics, fourth quarter 2025/26 (January to March 2026), sheet \"Crime stats per component\"",
    "url": "https://www.saps.gov.za/services/crimestats.php",
    "releasedOn": "2026-05-22"
  },
  "checkedOn": "2026-10-28",
  "page": "https://sadatahub.tech/series/crime-contact-q4",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "South African Police Service (2026). Crime statistics, fourth quarter 2025/26 (January to March 2026), sheet \"Crime stats per component\". Series \"Contact crimes reported to the police, January to March\" via SA Data Hub, https://sadatahub.tech/series/crime-contact-q4 (checked 2026-10-28).",
  "points": [
    {
      "period": "Jan-Mar 2022",
      "value": 157907
    },
    {
      "period": "Jan-Mar 2023",
      "value": 164206
    },
    {
      "period": "Jan-Mar 2024",
      "value": 171707
    },
    {
      "period": "Jan-Mar 2025",
      "value": 161672
    },
    {
      "period": "Jan-Mar 2026",
      "value": 154267
    }
  ],
  "revisions": [],
  "changeLog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-28",
      "type": "data-update",
      "summary": "Published the January to March 2022 to 2026 series from the SAPS fourth-quarter 2025/26 statistics, released on 22 May 2026 (SAPS, POLICE magazine special edition, May 2026, pages 4 and 7). Murder, contact crime and robbery with aggravating circumstances are shown as a separate quarterly series. The annual 2023/24 figures are unchanged."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-28",
      "type": "data-update",
      "summary": "Checked the SAPS fourth-quarter 2025/26 workbook (January to March 2026, compared with January to March 2022 to 2025). It covers one quarter, not a full financial year, so the annual 2023/24 figures are unchanged (murder 26 232, contact crime 561 947, robbery with aggravating circumstances 162 618). The quarterly figures (January to March 2026: murder 5 181, down from 5 727; contact crime 154 267, down from 161 672; robbery with aggravating circumstances 26 796, down from 31 749) will be shown once the SAPS release date is confirmed; the workbook does not state one. It has no notes on definition or category changes."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-05-01",
      "type": "data-update",
      "summary": "Annual SAPS crime series refreshed with the latest published reporting cycle."
    }
  ]
}