Nelspruit SAPS on high alert as festive season draws closer

The past weekend has been a busy one for the Mbombela police. As we head towards the festive season, criminals are on the prowl for easy targets and the SAPS are intensifying their efforts to make the city a safer place for all.

According to the Nelspruit SAPS spokesman, Capt Zandile Gqawa, the SAPS are conducting weekly operations to halt criminal activity. This is coupled with weekend operations in their bid to stem the rising tide of criminality and to bring offenders to book.

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“The Nelspruit SAPS have recorded a number of arrests for various offences from Friday to Sunday,” she said. The past weekend’s operations yielded 29 arrests for offences ranging from the possession of drugs, assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm, illegal gambling, shoplifting, drinking in public and theft to malicious damage to property, common robbery, pointing of a firearm and contravening the Road Traffic Act.”

With drug use and peddling in the city under the spotlight in recent months, the police have effected four arrests over the weekend for the possession of illegal substances while they attempt to make inroads into the dealing in illicit drugs.

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One case of kidnapping has also been reported while two arrests were made for common robbery, which, according to magistrate Boitumelo Mosadi, is a crime which has become prevalent in the magisterial district.