21.   Polls show that security is an important issue among voters, and the conservative Chirac made fighting crime a top priority in the presidential campaign.

22.   The new conservative government has made fighting crime a top priority.

23.   The police force is fighting to erase their image from apartheid, when they were mainly an agent of social control and fighting crime was a secondary pursuit.

24.   The Socialist government declared fighting crime as its major task after it took office last January.