committing a crime the less likely it is that that person is going to commit the crime in south africa where the conviction rate for murder is less than thirteen percent something certainly needs to be done to bolster detective work so that those who commit the crimes are brought to book the criminal law forensic procedure amendment bill is an attempt to do exactly this however in its initial form it had the potential to be frozen in a quagmire of dissenting voices in its original format it included the establishment of a dna database and numerous organisations from the cape bar council to the law society of sa