Metro police flood streets for Easter weekend safety

Police also busted a Pretoria West drug dealer with two bags of nyaope.

April 1, 2024

Manna Maurice 1 minute read

TMPD road-block operation. Photo: supplied.

More than 600 traffic fines were issued and 4 000 cars searched during this Easter weekend’s road safety operations.

From March 28, Tshwane metro police (TMPD) in Sinoville, the inner city and Bronkhorstpruit have been conducting various road safety operations throughout the city.

TMPD road-block operation. Photo: social (Facebook: Tshwane Metro Police Department).

“These operations are aimed at reducing the risk of accidents by checking vehicle and driver fitness,” said TMPD spokesperson, senior superintendent Isaac Mahamba.

“This is a warning to the community and motorists that the TMPD will not tolerate unfit vehicles and drivers on our roads, reckless and negligent driving, drunken drivers and anyone who endangers the lives of innocent people.”

The operations focussed on hotspots and a total of 618 traffic fines were issued for various road violations as well as more than 4 000 vehicles stopped and searched.

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On Good Friday, March 29, three operations were conducted on the N1 near Carousel Plaza, Lynwood Road and Mamelodi, where 450 vehicles and 130 people were searched and one driver arrested for drunk driving.

TMPD chief YCR Faro and mayor Cilliers Brink joined the operations.

Police inspecting a vehicle during a road-block. Photo: social (Facebook: Tshwane Metro Police Department).

On the N1, two unroadworthy buses, a minibus and six other vehicles were impounded. In Lynwood, 86 traffic fines amounting to R58 500 were issued.

“Apart from these operations, the TMPD drug unit members received a tip-off that led to the arrest of a suspected drug dealer who was delivering drugs in Pretoria West on March 28. He was found in possession of nine plastic balls of heroin known as nyaope. Further investigations were conducted, and six more plastic balls of heroin were found inside his other vehicle at his home. The estimated value of the drugs found is R49 000,” said Mahamba.

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