During the early morning of March 20, our home was broken into.
We heard nothing, the whole operation being very professional.
All the electrical goods were taken, TVs, computers, radios, cellphones, etc.
We discovered the loss at about 7am and CMS were here within minutes.
They were very good, taking all the necessary photographs, establishing the modus operandi of the break-in, etc., and calling the SAPS.
The police were here very soon after being called. By 9am all the statements had been done and the case number set, with confirmation by SMS,
At about 9.30am I was called to the police station to identify some electrical goods. They were ours.
Constables Mabula and Modiba, in an unmarked car, noticed people emerging from the bushes in a park and climbing into a taxi, which seemed suspicious.
They followed and then stopped the taxi, to find all our electrical goods, except the computers.
At the police station, the housebreakers told us the computers had already been sold.
The police immediately left and arrested the computer buyer.
Later in the morning they recovered the computers an d, by 11.30am, we were called to collect our stolen goods.
By 1pm they were returned home and re-installed.
Some of the goods which were still missing the police later recovered from the bush. Other than a few small items, they recovered everything.
While Constables Modiba and Mabula were instrumental in apprehending the five housebreakers and the Nigerian computer buyer, there were many other police members of the “D” shift, under the command of Lieut Col Shibambo, involved in the whole operation.
They should all be highly commended for the very professional and efficient manner in which they conducted this operation.
Well done.
