National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Fannie Masemola during the release of quarterly crime statistics.National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has announced that 85 000 suspects have been arrested in the last month for various crimes ranging from murder to rape, kidnapping and extortion.crimes but, “we are going to need the cooperation of our communities to report the crime and name and shame the perpetrators.
319 cases related to extortion have been reported countrywide from April 2023 until August 2024 while a 151 arrests have been made.Media briefing on SAPS countrywide operations for the past month Earlier this month, he announced that police managed to arrest 13 691 suspects nationally from 2 to 8 September during Operation Shanela activities.
Amongst those arrested, 1 953 wanted suspects were nabbed for crimes such as murder, rape, possession of illegal firearms and business robberies. 1 460 suspects were arrested for being in possession of drugs, 576 suspects were arrested for the illegal dealing in liquor, whilst 404 were arrested for drunken driving. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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