{"id":8040,"date":"2018-02-08T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tshwane-metro-police-officers-arrest-2-suspects-involved-in-scam-to-produce-public-driving-permits\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:30:06","slug":"tshwane-metro-police-officers-arrest-2-suspects-involved-in-scam-to-produce-public-driving-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tshwane-metro-police-officers-arrest-2-suspects-involved-in-scam-to-produce-public-driving-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Tshwane Metro police officers arrest 2 suspects involved in scam to produce public driving permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Tshwane Metro Police officers have today Thursday 08 February 2018 made an outstanding arrest after discovering a place where fraudulent documents are being produced.<\/p>\n<p>The officers stopped a Taxi which was driving facing on coming traffic in Van Der Hoff street at around 06h35 in the morning. They requested the driver to produce his driving permits.<\/p>\n<p>Upon inspection of the PDP he produced, the officers noticed that the bar code on the permit was suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>After a confirmation was made, they found that the permits were faked and the barcode belonged to a person who doesn&#039;t even possess a drivers license.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further questioning, the Taxi driver led the officers to an address in Mabopane Station where he purchased the documents.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the address, Two suspects fled and they managed to apprehend one who was at the premises.<\/p>\n<p>They then found that they also produce other fraudulent documents such as driver&#039;s licences; birth certificates, death certificates, Matric certificates and ID documents.<\/p>\n<p>Laptops and computers suspected to be used to produce the documents were also found in the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Materials from the home affairs and traffic departments were also amongst the documents found.<\/p>\n<p>Both male suspects aged 33 and 42 were arrested. The investigation continues and more arrests are expected.<\/p>\n<p>TMPD commends the officers for a job well done.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tshwane Metro police officers arrest 2 suspects involved in scam to produce public driving permits <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HkdseVRxZK\">https:\/\/t.co\/HkdseVRxZK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArriveAlive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ArriveAlive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMPDSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TMPDSafety<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrafficRTMC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TrafficRTMC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JemUmcpJaI\">pic.twitter.com\/JemUmcpJaI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_ArriveAlive\/status\/961652724667478018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=33649&#038;page=Tshwane-Metro-police-officers-arrest-2-suspects-involved-in-scam-to-produce-public-driving-permits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today &#8211; Accidents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tshwane Metro Police officers have today Thursday 08 February 2018 made an outstanding arrest after discovering a place where fraudulent documents are being produced. The officers stopped a Taxi which was driving facing on coming traffic in Van Der Hoff street at around 06h35 in the morning. They requested the driver to produce his driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[168,2153,175,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-8040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040","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=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}