{"id":47803,"date":"2026-07-14T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-stolen-vehicle-was-recovered-less-than-an-hour-after-it-was-taken\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:23:37","slug":"a-stolen-vehicle-was-recovered-less-than-an-hour-after-it-was-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-stolen-vehicle-was-recovered-less-than-an-hour-after-it-was-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"A stolen vehicle was recovered less than an hour after it was taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stolen vehicle was recovered less than an hour after it was taken, thanks to the rapid response of Mi7 teams and the capabilities of the Mi7 Surveillance Net.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, Mi7 Control Room received information through a local community crime group that a Volkswagen Citi Golf had been stolen from a property on Niani Tal Road in Northdale.<\/p>\n<p>Control Room operators immediately checked the Mi7 Surveillance Net, a network of strategically placed surveillance cameras equipped with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology. Within minutes, the system detected the vehicle travelling in the Willowton area.<\/p>\n<p>Mi7 teams responded and began searching the area, eventually locating the vehicle at a residential property operating as a vehicle workshop.<\/p>\n<p>The owners were cooperative and indicated they were unaware the vehicle had been stolen. They also provided CCTV footage of the individuals who had dropped the vehicle off, which has been handed over to police as part of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77957&#038;page=a-stolen-vehicle-was-recovered-less-than-an-hour-after-it-was-taken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stolen vehicle was recovered less than an hour after it was taken, thanks to the rapid response of Mi7 teams and the capabilities of the Mi7 Surveillance Net. On Saturday afternoon, Mi7 Control Room received information through a local community crime group that a Volkswagen Citi Golf had been stolen from a property on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/747526666_5317860378354648_5336491123236983217_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/747526666_5317860378354648_5336491123236983217_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}