A new Safety Dashboard that will provide real-time data to provincial safety stakeholders has been launched.
Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde, Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety, Reagen Allen, and the Provincial Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo, officially launched the Western Cape Government’s Safety Dashboard on Thursday, 26 May.
Premier Alan Winde said the dashboard is updated every 3 days and is being automated to further provide daily updates. “It has been active since the end of March 2022 and is constantly being upgraded. We have further made it accessible to Western Cape safety stakeholders including the SAPS, the Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety and the City of Cape Town,” he said.
Winde added that real-time data to not only guide our deployments based on past incidents but also to anticipate where new hotspots may appear is needed so that they can deploy the necessary resources before lives are lost. “While the release of the quarterly crime statistics helps to paint a picture of trends in criminal activity, it does not share real-time information, which is precisely what the Safety Dashboard sets out to do,” he said.
Using HECTIS data, the Safety Dashboard will track:
- When and where injuries occur;
- The mechanism of injury and the pattern of injury presentation over time;
- Patterns of trauma in particular populations such as gender or age groups over time;
- Patterns of trauma among pregnant women presenting at emergency centres; and
- Non-trauma presentations.
Western Cape Health MEC. Dr. Nomafrench Mbobo said the dashboard will be useful. “ The safety dashboard will improve the deployment of policing resources by providing operational teams with information that can assist with resource deployment, strategy and tactics aimed at improving safety in the Western Cape,” she said.
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