The Inanda police station reported the most contact crimes in the country between January and March this year.

Inanda in Durban has a police station that reported the most contact crimes in the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year (January – March 2026) across the country.

According to the latest crime statistics released by Acting Police Minister Professor Firoz Cachalia on Friday, the station reported 1,156 contact crimes during this period.

Contact crimes are described by the police as those where there is direct contact between the perpetrator and the victim.

Nine of the top 30 police stations that reported the most contact crimes or crimes against a person are in KwaZulu-Natal, and besides Inanda, the others are Plessislaer, Umlazi, KwaDukuza, Chatsworth, Ntuzuma, Durban Central, Empangeni, and Verulam.