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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 [...]

THABONG - Members of Crime Intelligence received information from residents of Thabong about a male person who was in possession of a firearm. The information was operationalised by the Provincial Anti-Gang Unit, whereby a room in a hostel was searched, earlier today. During the search, a 9mm firearm with the serial number clearly visible and [...]

PARKWEG - The Tactical Response Team arrested a suspect with a rifle after receiving intelligence-led information. On Wednesday 23 August 2023 at about 22:45, members of the Parkroad TRT Section 5 received intelligence led information about a person in possession of an unlicensed firearm at a block of flats in Brandwag. The team quickly acted [...]

VREDE – Police in Vrede, businesses and the local community jointly overpowered two suspects from Gauteng Province who attempted to commit business robbery at a certain shop owned by a foreign national. It's alleged that on 23 August 2023 at about 16:45, the foreign businessman and his two employees were inside the shop behind the [...]

ZAMDELA - Zamdela police seek public assistance in finding a missing man named Mkhosandile Mngciyase, aged 27. Mkhosandile was reportedly last seen on Monday, 31 July 2023 at about 05:00. His father reported that he left Mkhosandile at their home in Zamdela and upon his return in the evening, his son was not home and [...]

DEWETSDORP - Parkweg Stock Theft Unit, working together with the Bloemfontein Flying Squad, arrested four people for stock theft near Dewetsdorp. Bloemfontein Flying Squad on Wednesday 23 August 2023 at about 03:00 received information to be on the lookout for a white Toyota Quantum taxi, possibly having stolen livestock in it. The team operationalised the [...]