She listed achievements, including addressing concerns about crime recording, developing a new victims' centre and investment in body-worn cameras and digital devices.
By placing the victims centre stage, Beukes celebrates each girl's life and transforms a genre that often seems sickly sensationalist.
"Any process to deal with the past has to be victim centred, we are absolutely clear about that.
Suhayla El-Bushra's play, one of four making up the Iphigenia Quartet at the Gate, all re-examine Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis from multiple viewpoints, putting the shadowy victim centre stage.
"This process must be victim-centred.
News International's admitted guilt on phone hacking and the record-breaking damages it has so far paid out to hacking victims, have centred mainly on the NOTW's news desk operations.
Adi has made the care of Chernobyl victims the centre of her life.
As well as primary victims, the centre works with the family members of those who were abused.
"The government says it will arrest these soldiers and officers," says the head of the victim refuge centre, who wishes to remain anonymous.
Upon being bailed, she was turned away from a local victim help centre, and old school friends spread rumours about her.
At a rape victim refuge centre a couple of miles from Minova, Nzigire Chibalonza, 60, tells what happened when the soldiers came to her shop.
