JOE GQABI DISTRICT – SAPS members\u2019 continues efforts to prevent and detect crime and to rid the streets of drugs yielded positive results over the weekend.
\nMembers of the Public Order Policing (POP), Tactical Response Team (TRT), JGD OCC as well as crime prevention units at stations such as Mount Fletcher, Ugie, Maletswai and Aliwal North were busy with stop and search activities as well as intelligence driven operations that resulted in the arrest of seven suspects between the ages of 20 and 47 for the possession or dealing in drugs and dagga.
\nThe following drugs were seized:
\n\u2022\t82 bags of dagga in different sizes,
\n\u2022\t34 mandrax tablets in different sizes as well as 126 sachets of tik were confiscated in total as well as the cash amount of R7365-00.
\nThe suspects will appear in their respective magistrate\u2019s courts.
\nThe Acting District Commissioner, Brigadier Asogran Naidoo commended the members on the successful arrests and confiscations. The drugs were destined for the streets as part of criminal activities however the long arm of the law caught up with them.<\/p>\n
Source: South African Police Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"