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Quick response by police leads to arrests

Due to deployments in hotspot areas, police were able to respond immediately to crimes reported in close proximity.

POLICE arrested two men in the Durban CBD at the weekend shortly after they held up a victim in Margaret Mcadi Avenue.

The robbery victim stopped police who were conducting operations in the CBD and reported that he had been robbed and gave a description of the two suspects.

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Lt Col Thulani Zwane from provincial SAPS, said the police officers, accompanied by the victim, then conducted a search and spotted the two suspects close to where the crime had occurred. The men were stopped and searched and found to be in possession of a knife and a car-remote jamming device. They were arrested and charged,” he said.

 

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