GAUTENG 634 SUSPECTS ARRESTED @KASIBCNEWS

The Gauteng Traffic Police (GTP) and the Gauteng Traffic Wardens (GTWs) working with the South African Police Service (SAPS) and other stakeholders conducted High Density Operations and Operation Shanela throughout the 07th of March 2025 to 09th of March 2025. 

The weekend long operations yielded six hundred and twenty-nine (629) arrests across Gauteng and form part of the provincial government’s integrated efforts to intensify the fight against crime and prevent lawlessness in Gauteng.  

In the City of Ekurhuleni, law enforcement officials made two hundred arrests (200) arrests within the Primrose, Katlehong, Elsburg, Crystal Park, Boksburg, Springs, Zonkizizwe, Daveyton, Germiston, Tsakane, Ivory Park, Kempton Park, Nigel, and Actonville policing precincts. 

A total of thirty-eight (38) undocumented foreign nationals were arrested, while 16 persons were arrested for selling liquor without a license and twenty seven (27) suspects for possession of drugs. Other charges included drinking and driving, common assault, theft, drug dealing and murder amongst other things.  The City of Tshwane made one hundred and eighty-seven arrests (187), with forty-five (45) of those being for drinking and driving, eighty-six (86) for public drinking, twenty-six (26) for contravention of the immigration act and seventeen (17) for possession of drugs. 

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The arrests were made within the Ga-rankuwa, Sunnyside, Erasmia, Pretoria central, Bronkhorspruit, Rietgat and Ekangala policing precincts. Law Enforcement Agencies within the Sedibeng District Municipality made one hundred and five (105) arrests for cases which include selling liquor without a licence, selling illegal cigarettes, possession of drugs, Assault GBH and possession of illegal firearms within Sebokeng, De Deur, Orange Farm, Barrage Vanderbijil Park. Many of the arrests were for undocumented persons, which included seventy-eight (78) suspects.  

The City of Johannesburg yielded a total of eighty-four (84) arrests for charges including driving under the influence of alcohol, public drinking, possession of drugs, selling liquor without a license, assault GBH and robbery, house robbery and stolen goods. 

The arrests took place within Eldorado Park, Mondeor, Lenasia, Bramley, Naledi, Dieplsoot, Braamfischer, Dobsonville, Doornkop and Cosmo City. The West Rand District Municipality made fifty-nine (59) arrests for cases which include undocumented persons, shoplifting, house breaking and theft, M.I.T.P intimidation, possession of drugs, dealing in liquor without license, drunk and driving, common assault, assault GBH, contravention of protection order and assault GBH, domestic violence, failure to appear at court and possession of suspected drugs. 

The arrests were made within the Fochville, Kagiso, Magaliesburg, Westonaria, Krugersdorp and Muldesdrift policing precincts. “Cases such as public drinking, drinking and driving, undocumented persons and possession of drugs continue to plague our communities and pose a serious threat to the safety of residents. 

The Gauteng Traffic Police commends the work of law enforcement officials in working together to ensure that perpetrators of these crimes are brought to book. 

The officials will continue to conduct these operations to root out elements of crime in our communities,” said the Gauteng Traffic Police spokesperson Mr Sello Maremane.