476 suspects arrested in Limpopo operations

South African Police Service

476 suspects arrested in Limpopo operations
476 suspects arrested in Limpopo operations

The commitment and strategic approaches applied by the Police in Limpopo to fight crime in the continuous joint Operation Fiela II conducted, is bearing positive results around the province.

The intelligence driven operations were conducted until the early hours of this morning 9 July 2018, resulting in the apprehension of a total number of four hundred and seventy six suspects aged between 18 and 56 for various crimes ranging from murder, business robberies, house robberies, armed robberies, common robberies, Immigration Act, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, possession of suspected stolen properties and suspected stolen motor vehicles.

These simultaneous operations composed of various Police Units being the Crime Intelligent ,Detectives ,the Public Order Police ,the VIS, K9, Border Policing and the Crime Prevention from all levels of command, were focusing in the crime infested areas around the Province in the form of tracing of wanted suspects, roadblocks, stop and searches and patrols.

All the arrested suspects will appear before various Magistrate Courts throughout the Province soon.

The SAPS Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Nneke Ledwaba complimented the hardworking members of Saps for ensuring that crime is squeezed to its last breath by safekeeping the Limpopo residents at all corners.

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SOURCESouth African Police Service