Members of the EMPD helped a victim recover his bakkie within minutes after it was stolen from a parking lot on North Rand Road, on June 27.
According to EMPD spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng, the victim parked his vehicle outside one of the shopping centres on North Rand Road and went shopping in the morning.
When he returned to the spot, the car was gone. The desperate man then flagged down patrolling members of the EMPD’s Anti-Drunken Driving unit and told them that his bakkie, a white GWM Steed double cab, has just been stolen from the parking lot of the shopping centre.
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“Armed with a vehicle tracking app on his smart phone, and in less than 15 minutes, the victim and officers managed to find the van abandoned on the sidewalk of Jan Smuts Road. Its ignition had been tampered with,” explained Mokheseng.
The matter is being investigated by the SAPS’s detectives and no arrests had been made so far.
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