A multi-skilled team in the Gauteng province successfully operationalised information regarding a planned business robbery at a Bryanston diamond outlet on 5 December.
Members from the National Crime Intelligence, Provincial Specific Crime, Fidelity Specific Services, CAP Security Services, Johannesburg Flying Squad, K9 Unit, Johannesburg Metro Police, Tactical Response Team and Special Task Force were responsible for the arrest of 11 suspects and two SAPS members after a foiled business robbery.
According Colonel Brenda Muridili members of the team held an observation not far from the targeted place from midday that day.
“At about 8.30pm the team identified three vehicles driving towards the target place, one of them a marked police bakkie. The suspects got out of the vehicles and the police approached but then the suspects started shooting at the police. The members returned fire and subsequently arrested 11 suspects, two of them with gunshot wounds on their legs. None of the team members were injured but three of the police’s vehicles are bullet-riddled.”
She added that a rifle, two pistols, and two vehicles were seized during the arrest with one of them being the marked police bakkie.
On 8 December the suspects will appear in the Randburg Magistrates Court facing charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, possession of suspected stolen vehicles, and driving vehicle without owner’s consent.
Muridili added that the same task team arrested four suspects who are believed to part of a syndicate that has been linked to a string of robberies in the province where courier vehicles are targeted.
“The suspects at the time of the arrest were allegedly on their way to commit a robbery in Fourways as per information received from Crime Intelligence. They were found with two unlicensed firearms, a jammer and a Toyota Prado that had been hijacked in Eldorado Park.”
She added that all the unlicensed firearms will be taken for ballistic tests to determine whether they were used to commit other crimes.
“The arrested police members, a detective sergeant stationed in Kempton Park and an administration clerk from Springs FCS will also be subjected to a departmental disciplinary investigation,” said the Colonel.
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