Detectives in the province arrested 216 suspects for various offences during suspect raiding between Thursday, 26 and Friday, 27 July 2018.
The suspects included 77 suspects held for Assault with intent to do Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) and assault common.
The other arrests included seven for common robbery, six for rape, 17 for malicious damage to property, 35 for burglary at residential/business premises, seven for contravention of protection order, and 17 for theft.
Out of the 216 arrests, 33 were for crimes against women and children.
The suspects were arrested at all seven poling clusters in the province of which 59 arrests were in the Brits Cluster, 32 was from the Klerksdorp Cluster and 36 in the Rustenburg Cluster.
Most of them have appeared at various courts within the province on 27 July 2018 as well as on Monday, 30 July 2018.
The North West Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Baile Motswenyane commended detectives for the arrests. She said that they will definitely send a clear message to perpetrators, that they have no place to hide and that the long arm of the law will ensure that they are brought to book.
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