The strategic deployment of our members along the entry and exit routes to and from the Western Cape Province to curb the lucrative drug trade proved to be successful when members attached to the Central Karoo K9 Unit in collaboration with Crime Intelligence, George DPCI and the Central Karoo Flying […]
Police in Mpumalanga have seized dagga worth R4.7 Million on the N12 in Delmas. Through information received from intelligence and the Trilateral Planning Cell (TPC), police pounced on a truck carrying the consignment of dagga. Information received is that the truck was travelling from Eswatini with drugs towards Johannesburg. Joint […]
Police have rescued a businessman and arrested eight kidnappers, including three Tanzanian nationals in Johannesburg. The businessman was kidnapped on the 5th of July 2024 at a mosque in Helderkruin, Roodepoort. He was rescued at a house in Lenasia on Wednesday. The SAPS anti- kidnapping task team has been working […]
Continued efforts to stop the illegal drug trade and the trafficking thereof via the main entry and exit routes to the Western Cape yielded success when police members arrested a truck driver on the N1 in Laingsburg on Thursday, 09 May 2024 in connection with the transportation of drugs with […]
Members of the SAPS from Border Policing have arrested a 43-year-old truck driver from the Kingdom of Eswatini after his alleged attempts to smuggle dagga into South Africa. An estimated street value of the 150 kg’s of dagga is at about R630, 840. The male suspect was apprehended at Oshoek […]
The Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime team remains committed to disrupt the proliferation of illegal drugs and ensure those involved in smuggling them face the full might of the law. This is evident in the multi-disciplinary operation that was conducted in Mpumalanga on Sunday, 16 July 2023 wherein a 49-year-old foreign […]
The determination by the members of the South African Police Service in the ZF Mgcawu District led to a major dagga bust at Nakop Border Post in the early morning hours of Sunday, 25 June 2023. The members of Upington Border Police selected a truck for a secondary inspection during […]
Continued efforts to eradicate the trafficking of drugs and to give the lucrative drug trade a major blow, gained momentum when members attached to Bishop Lavis SAPS acted on information received about a possible drug consignment at business premises situated at the Airport Industrial. SAPS members, with the assistance of […]
The concerted efforts of the police to eradicate drugs from the streets continue to bear positive results as police seize a large consignment of drugs and arrest four suspects. On 11 April 2023, a team comprising of Gauteng Flying Squad, Highway Patrol, K9 units, and Customs from SARS operationalised intelligence […]
Four suspects aged between 26 and 59 appeared in the Chief Albert Magistrate’s Court today, 23 March 2023 in connection with the trafficking of dagga. According to information, earlier this morning, Thursday 23 March 2023 at about 05:30 police in Oshoek Border were performing their routine stop and search duties. […]
