Suspects in jail because of copper theft

Two security guards that were observant about their surroundings managed to arrest two suspects who were dinging for copper cable in a deep trench.

CSC Tactical security guards made there way to Witbank Airfield on Thursday, January 28 in the morning. They noticed two people digging in the trench that was dug on the side of the road towards Klarinet.
At first they thought they were contractors working on the cable in the trench so they just carried on driving towards the airfield, but keeping the people in the trench in mind.

The two suspects were arrested by security guards from CSC Tactical on the road towards Klarinet on Thursday, January 28.

On their way back from the airfield they stopped by the trench to see what was going on.
That’s when they found two suspects’s both had a spade with them and they were allegedly cutting up the electrical wire for the copper inside it.

The cable in the trench that they were cutting up to take copper from it, they both had a spade with them.

Community members soon gathered where the suspects were arrested as the guards waited for the police to take the suspects to jail along with the evidence.

Copper cable theft is having a devastating effect on the economy, resulting in indirect costs estimated at about R5 billon a year. Last year there were 72533 reported incidents of copper cable theft and 10736 arrests were made according to the South African Police Services statics.