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South Africa is one of the least safe countries in the world

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Global polling group, Gallup, has published the results of its latest survey probing perceptions of crime and policing among 142 countries in the world.

The group conducted over 1,000 face-to-face and telephonic interviews in each country – with a total of 152,000 responses – asking people about levels of crime in their area, how safe they felt walking the streets, and how much confidence they had in the local police force.

Gallup then compiled the results into scores, and created an index ranking each country by their overall law and order score.

The Gallup Law and Order Index is a composite score based on people’s reported confidence in their local police, their feelings of personal safety, and the incidence of theft and assault or mugging in the past year.

The higher the score, the higher the proportion of the population that reports feeling secure.

In the latest index, South Africa dropped in the overall rankings, with an index score of 56, now ranked the fifth-worst for law and order among the 142 countries covered.

According to the Gallup, more than two in three people worldwide said in 2018 that they feel safe walking alone at night where they live (69%) and have confidence in their local police (68%).

One in eight (13%) said they had property stolen from them or another household member in the past year, and 6% said they were assaulted or mugged.

In contrast to this, only 31% of South Africans polled said they feel safe (the third lowest overall), while only 59% of people feel confident in the police force’s capacity to fight crime.

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