4.11 Secure care and safe custody 4.11.1 The JICS recorded 2 884 complaints of inmate-on-inmate assaults, 2 010 alleged official-on-inmate assaults and 4 223 allegations of inhumane treatment. 4.11.2 Though the DCS recorded a total of 83 assaults per 10 000 offenders, and incurred a staggering R988 million in liabilities as a result of "Bodily injury/assault", virtually no detail is provided on nature of the assaults e.g whether they were offender-on-offender or official-on-offender. The DCS should provide greater clarity on what constitutes an assault and such information should be reflected in future reports. 4.11.3 Such statistics imply that the DCS is unable to guarantee inmates' safety, and disturbingly that often inmates are assaulted by the officials charged with their care.