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title: "Police Accountability Tracker: Search for your police station now"
description: "Viewfinder’s Police Accountability Tracker is an interface to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate's (Ipid's) database of more than 47,000 complaints registered against the police between April 2012 and March 2020. Users can use the filters to home in on any police station for an overview of cases registered there. Users can also locate any individual case for a 'progress report', as at March 2020. The data demonstrate that police officers implicated in violent crimes routinely escape accountability."
type: "NewsArticle"
publisher: "Daily Maverick"
site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
section: "VIEWFINDER"
author: "Daneel Knoetze for Viewfinder"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/daneel-knoetze/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-10-20-police-accountability-tracker-search-your-police-station-now/"
published: "2021-10-20T18:00:19"
updated: "2021-10-20T16:50:44"
lang: "en-ZA"
---

# Police Accountability Tracker: Search for your police station now

> Viewfinder’s Police Accountability Tracker is an interface to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate's (Ipid's) database of more than 47,000 complaints registered against the police between April 2012 and March 2020. Users can use the filters to home in on any police station for an overview of cases registered there. Users can also locate any individual case for a 'progress report', as at March 2020. The data demonstrate that police officers implicated in violent crimes routinely escape accountability.

By Daneel Knoetze for Viewfinder · Published 20 October 2021, 20:00 SAST · Updated 20 October 2021, 18:50 SAST