The National Stock Theft Prevention Forum (NSTPF) has been involved in many meetings and crime prevention groups all over the country and it is obvious that the modus operandi of the livestock perpetrators are challenging, especially in Gauteng.

Previously the NSTPF warned against various aspects of livestock theft and the involvement of the livestock owner to be a guardian to the livestock.  Current evidence indicate that the results of the involvement of the livestock owner created a challenge for the livestock perpetrator. Livestock owners are more aware and count their animals regularly, when animals are stolen the livestock owners rush to abattoirs and auctions all over the country. The result of the activities of the livestock owners are that more and more brutal slaughtering of animals occur on a daily basis.

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1. The newly established SAPS Service Complaints Centre, which forms part of the Component: Management Intervention Analysis Centre and Service Complaints, is in place to assist the community in receiving optimal service delivery and reducing complaints against the police.
2. Besides for complaints being dealt with on an individual basis, an aggregation of all complaints is also done with a view to identifying trends through analysis, of which the findings are then utilised to inform management to effect corrective action.
3. Any dissatisfaction or disappointment by any person or organisation, locally, regionally and internationally, in relation to the conduct or lack thereof, of the service that was rendered or supposed to have been rendered by the SAPS, as represented by its employees, will be investigated to ensure that it is redressed to the satisfaction of the complainant.

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