in the main these house robbers are twenty years old and have committed one hundred robberies before arrest they do their homework and they often prepare for up to four months before they strike they also torture their victims as a means of establishing where valuables are hidden and they rape and kill without remorse currently the reality is that only twelve point five percent of robberies with aggravating circumstances end up being prosecuted we have already fallen behind because of the bad judgement of the previous national police commissioner and statistics have shown shocking increases in crimes in areas affected by the closure of our globally admired specialised units consider the eighty seven percent increase in drug related crime since the shutting down of the sa narcotics bureau