Policewomen take the lead
Drugs were found concealed in the plaster cast around the suspect's fractured leg.
ONE of the projects undertaken by the Port Shepstone SAPS Cluster in commemoration of Women’s Month, was a recent multi-disciplinary crime prevention blitz.
A roadblock was conducted in the Hibberdene and neighbouring precincts by law enforcement officials from the Road Traffic Inspectorate, Hibiscus Coast Municipality and the cluster police stations.
Operational commander Colonel Nokuthula Patience Mzila briefed the officers, the majority being women, and divided them into sections to focus on specific offences. Staff from the Vehicle Identification Section teamed up with the officers and looked for stolen vehicles, vehicles with stolen engines and other vehicle related offences.
“Sergeant Stanley Holloway and Constables Wallace Daniels and Logan Moodley of the Port Shepstone Cluster Narcotics Task Team were tasked to focus on drug related crimes. A third section carried out raids at taverns, shebeens and tuck shops looking for illicitly brewed concoctions, drugs, dealing in liquor without a licence and other liquor related offences,” said police spokesman, Captain Vincent Pandarum.
Patrons were searched and two people were arrested and charged for being in possession of knives. The remaining members carried out roving vehicle checkpoints looking for undocumented foreigners and wanted suspects. All sections operated simultaneously with the female law enforcement officials taking the lead.
Police arrested four men and a 17-year-old youth for being in possession of heroin. Police also recovered 26 straws of whoonga and a large sum of money believed to be the proceeds from the sale of drugs. The drugs were concealed inside the plaster cast one of the suspects had around his fractured leg. The men appeared in the Hibberdene Magistrate’s Court and the case was postponed.
