Lerato Mbhiza
WHILE giving an update on the crime statistics and successes achieved by the SAPS in responding to serious and violent crimes, Police Minister Bheki Cele cited the recently foiled cash-in-transit heist in Hoedspruit, Limpopo where farmers assisted the police in arresting three suspects while four others were shot and killed.
Cele said, despite the public comments crediting members of the Hoedspruit Farmers Watch for their success in foiling a heist, it was the good working relationship between the police and the community forum that also resulted in the arrest of one of the country’s most wanted criminals.
“We’d like to take this opportunity to appreciate the working relationship with Hoedspruit farm watchers who worked closely with the SAPS in taking down this syndicate.
“Among those arrested was a most wanted suspect, a Mozambican national linked to a murder of a police officer, a spate of hijackings, house and
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