The EMPD Public Order Policing Unit visited different police stations last Thursday, between midnight and 4pm.
At the police stations they collected SAPS dockets containing information of wanted suspects who had disappeared after criminal cases were opened against them or who had failed to appear in the Magistrate’s Courts when being summoned.
Eleven male suspects were traced.
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They were apprehended for various charges, including armed and common robbery, dealing in drugs, theft, assault GBH, fraud, malicious damage to property and contempt of court.
The men are between the ages of 28 and 48 years.
“They were detained and handed over to the Eden Park, Etwatwa, Katlehong, Tembisa, Rabie Ridge and Vosloorus police stations, where they will be secured in order to greet the magistrates soon, at the appropriate courts,” said Kobeli Mokheseng, EMPD spokesperson.
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