Combined police emergency services successes

Throughout Gauteng, Police Emergency Services, which included the Flying Squad, K9 Units, and Highway Patrol members, apprehended 133 suspects between Friday, 25 July and Thursday, 31 July 2025. They also retrieved 35 motor vehicles and eight firearms.

Members participated in various concentrated operations, vehicle check points, secure escorts and intensive patrols around Gauteng, which led to 71 arrests for serious crimes including assault common and GBH, possession of suspected stolen property, possession of precious metals, common robbery, malicious damage to property, driving under the influence of alcohol, contravention of the immigration Act, armed robbery, housebreaking, illicit cigarettes, house robbery, contempt of court, kidnapping, murder, contravention of protection order, hijacking, shoplifting, rape, business burglary, tampering with essential infrastructure, intimidation and theft.

Thirty-five (35) hijacked and stolen motor vehicles were recovered with thirteen (13) arrests for the possession of these vehicles. Eight (08) unlicensed firearms were recovered accompanying five (05) arrests.

Forty-four (44) suspects were arrested for drug possession and trafficking as part of additional policing. Heroine, dagga crystal methamphetamine, cocaine and mandrax were among those confiscated in these separate incidents.

Investigation continues in these cases.

Members of the Benoni Flying Squad apprehended four suspects and seized drugs on Friday, 1 August 2025.

Members stopped a white Suzuki Swift on the R555 Road in Etwatwa on Friday at approximately 06:45. When members found ten (10) transparent bags of dagga in the car, worth about thirty thousand Rand (R30 000.00), a 26-year-old suspect was taken into custody right away.

Three suspects, ages 22 to 28, were taken into custody by police officers in Tsakane near Cornwell, Ndabezitha, and Ndaba Streets. Nyaope (heroine) and crystal methamphetamine were recovered in these separate incidents.

Investigation continues.

The suspects will appear in the local Magistrate’s Courts facing charges of possession of and dealing in drugs