An intelligence driven operation yielded positive results when two suspects were arrested by the team comprising of Nelspruit based Serious Organised Crime Investigation, Crime Intelligence (CI), Flying Squad, K9 (Dog unit), SAHPRA, South African Revenue Services (SARS) Home Affairs and Local Criminal Record Centre (LCRC) on Friday, 21 June 2024 […]
MPD TRU received a complaint of theft conducted by an truck driver transporting coal from Zimbabwe to Vaal. The driver failed to deliver the coal to the client. Instead, he sold it for R15000 in Wychwood. The driver and male who bought the coal unlawfully were arrested
Truck Driver’s Coal Scam Exposed: Swapped Eskom Coal for Stones, Arrested at Arnot Power Station The driver’s confession to selling the coal for R6000 and swapping them with stones led to his immediate arrest by members of Middelburg Hawks Unit. #Eskom #MediaStatement Suspected coal thief arrested at Arnot Power Station […]
The Northern Cape Provincial Organised Crime Investigations Unit and the Colesberg Highway Patrol followed up on information and arrested two Somalian nationals in the Western Cape with Khat worth R275 000-00 on Saturday, 20 April 2024 at approximately 09:00 The investigation led police to Kraaifontein in the Western Cape, and […]
The violent and destructive protests on the R394 road, connecting the N2 at Phakade to the R61 at Magusheni have forced the department to completely close off that stretch for the safety of motorists. The road remains barricaded with big rocks while the trench in the middle of the tarred […]
In a continuous effort to clamp down on non-ferrous metals related criminality, Boitekong Visible Policing members arrested a 63-year-old suspect for possession of suspected stolen copper cables during a Crime Intelligence led operation on Tuesday, 19 March 2024. According to information, the team operationalised intelligence received about suspected stolen copper […]
Damage and vandalism to essential infrastructure, such as rail and freight, poses a serious threat to the economy and job creation within our province and therefore every effort to prevent and combat these crimes, remains a priority. On Friday 02 February 2024, Melkbosstrand police members, assisted by Crime Prevention Unit […]
Two brothers, aged 33 and 36, are scheduled to appear in the Welkom Magistrates’ Court this morning, for possession of suspected stolen copper cable worth R650 000. They are employees at a scrapyard in Welkom where part of their responsibility is to accept, weigh, and buy goods. They were arrested […]
High-density weekend operations in the Western Cape yielded positive results when police members confiscated drugs and firearms. Members of Operation Restore, deployed in the Mitchell’s Plain policing precinct, arrested a 40-year-old male when he was caught with heroin on Sunday evening, 29 October 2023. The members searched a premises in […]
Around 19:30 on Thursday evening ALS Paramedics received numerous calls of yet another Cash in Transit attempted robbery and bombing this time on the N2 South Bound between Kwa Mashu and Nandi Drive. Immediately Paramedics made their way and met with SAPS. Once safe medics entered the scene which was […]
