Rapid Response Services (RRS)
Members of the Gauteng RRS, which includes the Flying Squad, K9 Units and Highway Patrol, arrested 104 across the province.
Participating in concentrated operations, 46 criminals were brought to book on charges of assault with the intent of causing grievous bodily harm, possession of suspected stolen property, robbery, possession of housebreaking implements, possession of illicit cigarettes, damage to property, theft, murder, intimidation, fraud and bribery.
Six people were arrested on charges of being in possession of unlicensed firearms and seven firearms were recovered.
Further policing led to the recovery of 44 vehicles that were reported as stolen or hijacked, and 16 arrests were made for being in possession of these vehicles.
Adding a further blow, 36 individuals were arrested for possession of and dealing drugs.
Heroin, dagga, cocaine, Mandrax and meth were confiscated.
Ekurhuleni Water Policing and Diving Services (WPDS)
• At midday on August 6, WPDS members were deployed to the Kaalspruit River in Ivory Park, where the body of an unknown man was recovered.
The victim had been shot.
• WPDA members were again dispatched to Hospital View, Thembisa after a man was found floating in a trench of contaminated water.
Due to fears that the sides of the trench may collapse the recovery was called off until the morning.
With the assistance of the K9 Search and Rescue Unit, officers opted to enter the trench downstream and the victim’s body was recovered.
Investigations into both recoveries are currently underway and anyone with information is urged to call CrimeStop on 08600 10111.
Information supplied by Warrant Officer Grant Giblin, Benoni Flying Squad, RRS and WPDS spokesperson.
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