Arrest
• Benoni Flying Squad (BFS) members assisted detectives from Zonkezizwe in tracing a person wanted for pointing a firearm and assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
They arrested the 25-year-old on April 1.
• An off-duty BFS member was asked to help the Springs CPF trace a person wanted in connection with theft out of a motor vehicle in Strubenvale.
Officers found a 26-year-old female with the vehicle owner’s handbag, ID and driver’s license and arrested a second 26-year-old shortly afterwards.
Assault
While patrolling the N12 near Kraft Road on April 6, BFS members came across a minor accident.
While on the scene, an argument erupted between the two drivers. It became physical, and one was assaulted.
Officers arrested a 21-year-old and detained them at the Bedfordview Police Station.
Rapid Response Service (RRS)
From March 28 to April 3, units which form part of the RRS, including the Flying Squad, K9 Units and Highway Patrol, arrested 80 people in Gauteng.
Participating in concentrated operations, officers made 34 arrests for assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, possession of suspected stolen property, attempted murder, fraud, crimen injuria, theft, malicious damage to property, possession of unlicensed ammunition, contravention of the immigration act, house burglary and theft.
They recovered 19 hijacked and stolen vehicles, followed by two accompanying arrests on charges of being in possession of these vehicles.
Further investigations led to the recovery of an unlicensed firearm. One suspect was arrested.
Forty-three suspects were arrested on charges of being in possession of drugs with the intent to sell.
Heroin, dagga, cocaine, Mandrax and meth were confiscated.
Water Police and Diving Services (WPDS)
Members of the SAPS WPDS recovered three bodies and helped rescue an accident victim from March 29 to April 3.
• Tshwane WPDS members recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl in Tsakane on March 29.
It is alleged that the victim was crossing a stream between Tsakane and Duduza, using an exposed pipe to balance on.
Initial searches yielded no results, but her body was found the next day, 2km from the point of entry.
• On March 31, members from the Sedibeng WPDS responded to a call about a bakkie stranded in the Rietspruit River.
Upon their arrival, members found the driver sitting atop the submerged vehicle.
An inflatable raft was used to rescue the victim and bring him to safety.
• The body of a man suspected to be in his early 20s was found floating in the Westdene Dam, Sophiatown, on March 31.
• Reporting for his last day of duty before entering life as a retiree on April 1, Ekurhuleni WPDS K9 member Optimus led his handler, Warrant Officer Martin Bann, to the badly decomposed body of a victim who was washed away in the Natalspruit River the previous week.
After combing the river banks near Edenpark, the victim’s body was recovered 6km from the point of entry near Napoleon Road.
• An elderly man was rescued from the flooded Rietspruit River, Sedibeng, on April 3.
Information supplied by BFS, RRS and WPDS spokesperson, Warrant Officer Grant Giblin.
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