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47 Suspects arrested for serious crimes in Nyanga

47 Suspects arrested for serious crimes in Nyanga

Efforts to deal with serious crimes in the Nyanga precinct yielded positive results. More than forty suspects were apprehended over the weekend for crimes...
Stock theft: 25 Stolen sheep found hidden underground, Mount Fletcher. Photo: SAPS

Stock theft: 25 Stolen sheep found hidden underground, Mount Fletcher

Swift action and determination by the SAPS to rid the province of widespread stock theft, led to the recovery of twenty five sheep on...
Kagiso rapist among four violent criminals sentenced, Gauteng

Kagiso rapist among four violent criminals sentenced, Gauteng

The Gauteng Provincial Management has welcomed the long sentences given to four men that were convicted and sentenced from ten to eighteen years imprisonments...
Constable injured in attack on police, suspect freed, police firearm robbed

Constable injured in attack on police, suspect freed, police firearm robbed

on Saturday 13 July 2019, a Reservist Constable who was part of a team on operation at Mamelodi West Hostel Y-Section was rushed to...
Dobsonville female constable fatally wounded, suspect arrested

Dobsonville female constable fatally wounded, suspect arrested

Management of the South African Police Service in Gauteng is saddened on learning of the untimely death of a 40 year old female Constable...
Anti gang unit recover unlicensed firearms, Muizenberg

Anti gang unit recover unlicensed firearms, Muizenberg

Members from the Anti-Gang Unit, committed to remove illegal firearms and ammunition acted on information they received on 13 July 2019, and proceeded to...
Two garages robbed along Uitenhage Road, PE

Two garages robbed along Uitenhage Road, PE

Swartkops police officers arrested seven suspects aged between 17 and 28, for business robbery, possession of unlicensed firearm and possession of suspected stolen property...
Over 140 arrested in Western Cape NatJoints operations

Over 140 arrested in Western Cape NatJoints operations

Over 140 suspects have been arrested during National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NatJoints) operations around the Western Cape since Thursday morning, Police Minister...

Security guards demand jobs from PE municipality

Unemployed security guards attempted to disrupt the unveiling of seven new trucks in Port Elizabeth city centre on Thursday morning. About 100 guards entered...
Missing teenager (16) sought, Roodepoort

Missing teenager (16) sought, Roodepoort

Brandin-Lee Potterill (16) has been missing since 10 July 2019, from Roodepoort, Gauteng province, Johannesburg West. At the time of his disappearance he was...
Famous actor arrested for impersonating police officials, kidnapping, JHB

Famous actor arrested for impersonating police officials, kidnapping, JHB

A famous South African actor and his two accomplices are set to appear in the Booysens Magistrates’ Court on Monday 15 July 2019, on...
Rape of minors: Three rapists sentenced, Alexandria

Rape of minors: Three rapists sentenced, Alexandria

Sergeant Luzuko Helesi attached the Port Alfred Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offence Unit, secured a total 39 years’ imprisonment against three accused...