New app feature allows Cape Town residents to report crime

Vicky Stark – 21 April 2026

`I’m all for this. If there’s a way to actually do this and have a response without having to sit on your phone for hours trying to get through to them, that’s great,’ said Friedman.

People can now report certain crimes and by-law infringements on the City of Cape Town’s mobile phone app.

Speaking to CapeTalk’s Clarence Ford about this new feature, Primedia’s Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman, explained how it works: “There’s a section on the app that allows you to report an incident. And then when you go onto that section, you click in the search bar at the top and it has 17 categories of incidents that you can report…