59 suspects nabbed in KZN cross-border crime campaign
A police task team deployed to curb cross-border crime in northern KwaZulu-Natal has managed to arrest 59 suspects since its inception three months ago.
The task team is made up of specialised units and organised crime detectives from the police’s headquarters in Pretoria.
National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says the ministry also met with their Mozambican counterparts in Cape Town recently.
“The Police Ministry and SAPS top management met with their Mozambican counterparts in Cape Town to discuss and map a way forward to strengthen cross-border operations in a bid to disrupt and dismantle crime along the borderline affecting both South Africa and Mozambique and to discuss and map a way forward to strengthen cross-border operations in a bid to disrupt and dismantle crime along the borderline affecting both South Africa and Mozambique.
“Since then, 51 750 persons, as well as 27 663 vehicles, have been searched. Forty cases are under investigation with 59 arrests. Twenty-six vehicles and 18 firearms have since been recovered.”
Mathe says one of the suspects is a notorious criminal who has been on the police radar on suspicion of hijacking SUVs and LDV vehicles, which are smuggled across the border to Mozambique.
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