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Correctional Services officials together with members of the Anti-Gang Unit and Crime Intelligence have conducted a search and seizure operation at the Pollsmoor Correctional Facility in Cape Town.

Dagga, cellphones, chargers and self-made weapons were among the contraband seized. More than 460 recruits were part of the search operation, to gain work experience.

He says sometimes inmates also manage to smuggle in the contraband if they were at court and not properly searched before returning to their cells. “She was actually apprehended while she was in the act at her house, in the act of packing. The tip-off came from a roadblock done by metro police. That roadblock led SAPS, ourselves as correctional services and metro police to her house,” Thobakgale elaborates.

 

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Dont worry they be posting with their phones tomorrow on social media

This should be a daily exercise in that prison

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