Possession of drugs
• Benoni Flying Squad (BFS) members arrested seven people for possession of drugs with intent to sell.

• A 38-year-old man driving a white Isuzu bakkie was stopped in Etwatwa on September 23 after being seen driving recklessly. A search uncovered 15 large bags of compressed dagga on the back seat.

• Six suspects were arrested in Ivory Park, Elsburg, the Bhangalo informal settlement, Buhle Park and Tsakane.
The police recovered Mandrax, meth, heroin and cocaine.

Recovered vehicles
• A 22-year-old man was arrested in Boksburg on September 26. He had allegedly taken the grey Haval without the owner’s consent. He faces charges of malicious damage to property and assault GBH.

• An abandoned, hijacked Nissan NP200 was recovered in Daveyton. It was reported as hijacked in the same area.

SAPS Rapid Response Services (RRS)
From September 19 to 25, the SAPS Rapid Response Services arrested 135 people across Gauteng.

The operation resulted in:
• 70 arrests for serious crimes, including assault common with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, possession of suspected stolen property, driving under the influence, theft, shoplifting, contravening the Immigration Act, armed robbery, rape, fraud, kidnapping, malicious damage to property, theft from motor vehicle, robbery, domestic violence, use of vehicle without owner’s consent, pointing a firearm and house burglary.

• the recovery of 28 hijacked and stolen vehicles, with 13 arrests for their possession.

• 12 arrests for possession of unlicensed firearms, with 14 weapons seized.

• 40 arrests for drug dealing, with heroin, dagga, meth, cocaine and Mandrax recovered.

The SAPS Water Police and Diving Services (WPDS)
From September 23 to 28, SAPS Water Police were deployed to four incidents, recovering three bodies and a sunken vessel.

• On September 23, Sedibeng WPDS officers recovered the body of a suspected murder victim from a Sebokeng manhole;

• A sunken vessel was recovered at Stonehaven on September 24;

• A severely decomposed body was recovered from the Klipvalley River marshland in Soweto on September 25;

• An unknown man’s body was recovered from the Vaal River near the Dickinson Park on September 27;

• WPDS members attended a boating accident at Lochvaal on September 28. Both vessels had minor damage. There were no injuries reported.

Information supplied by the BFS, RRS and WPDS spokesperson, Warrant Officer Grant Giblin.

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