Free State

Members of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation's (Hawks) Serious Commercial Crime Investigation and Priority Crime Specialised Investigation have secured a forfeiture order against a convicted fraudster and her boyfriend. The order was granted by the Free State High Court sitting in Bloemfontein on 31 August 2023. It relates to a vehicle purchased with proceeds [...]

The police in Mangaung Metro have launched a manhunt for about eight suspects who committed business burglary at a retail chain store in the Mall situated at the corner of First Avenue and Kings Way, Willows in Bloemfontein. According to reports, a group of about eight male suspects entered the mall on Sunday, 03 September [...]

Residents of Kutloanong shared valuable information to members on duty at Kutloanong Satellite Police Station about a suspect who was on his way to sell copper cable at a supermarket in Block 1. Members of the community reportedly apprehended the suspect with copper cable and another copper cable was found at the supermarket and seized [...]

Five people, three males and two females died during an accident between a Greyhound Luxury Coach and a White Volkswagen Polo hatchback at the crossing of N6 National Road and R702 Road during the early hours of today, Sunday 3 September 2023. The police were called to the scene and on arrival discovered that the [...]

A joint roadblock between Visible Policing members within Lejweleputswa District, Department of Home Affairs, Public Order Policing Unit, the Vehicle Crime Investigation Unit, the Welkom K9 Unit and the Provincial Traffic Department was held on the N1 Road near Ventersburg. The roadblock that started from 12:00 until 16:00 was successful, as 564 people and 374 [...]

Police request the community to help locate two minors, aged six and 13, who were last seen on Wednesday, 30 August 2023 at about 08:00. The two boys were allegedly last seen playing outside at their mother's residence. Efforts by the mother to locate them were unsuccessful. It is reported that on Thursday, 31 August [...]

The Provincial Organised Crime Unit in Bloemfontein seek public assistance in tracing three men who can assist police in an investigation of petrol filling station robberies in Mangaung. In the month of October 2022, the City of Bloemfontein experienced petrol filling station robbery incidents in which the same modus-operandi was used. Three unknown males walked [...]

Members of Welkom Public Order Policing were busy conducting crime combatting in the Kgotsong section of Thabong when they received information from a resident about a house where dagga is being sold. The information was operationalised on 31 August 2023 at about 19:30, when a house was approached and a request was made to search [...]

Police in Phuthaditjhaba seek public assistance for information that can assist in solving a murder case after the body of a 22-year-old man from Bolata Village in Qwaqwa was found lying in the Riverside Township with multiple wounds. It's alleged that on 01 September 2023 at about 07:30, the police were summoned to the crime [...]

Police are on the hunt for suspects who attacked an elderly couple on their farm outside Bloemfontein. On Tuesday 29 August 2023, Kagisanong police and emergency personnel were summoned to a Farm outside Bloemfontein after a man found an elderly couple in a pool of blood. It is alleged that the couple’s son who is [...]

Two accused have each been found guilty and sentenced by the Bloemfontein Magistrate Court for assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and child abuse. The first accused, aged 46 who is the father of the fourteen-year-old victim from Caleb Motshabi location in Kagisanong area, had been reportedly assaulting his daughter over a period [...]

VILJOENSDRIF - An undocumented suspect about 40 years was arrested for Possession of copper cable in Viljoensdrif. It is alleged that on 25 August 2023 members attached to Viljoensdrif SAPS were patrolling the R82 when they noticed a suspicious vehicle. They followed and stopped the suspicious green bakkie, and while the members interviewed the driver [...]