Two house robbers were nabbed in a combined effort from police and local crime fighters on Wednesday, 29 January after they committed a robbery in Mfume, but made the wrong decision to come through Toti to escape.
CCPO, ET Rapid Response and Blue Security officers received information that police were chasing the suspects’ vehicle on the N2, thanks to the CCPO radio network. After losing sight of the vehicle on the highway, a quick-thinking Blue officer went to wait on the Moss Kolnik onramp in the hope of spotting it. Sure enough the suspects’ vehicle came speeding past him and he gave chase along the N2, followed by police and response officers, but unfortunately he too lost sight of it.
The suspects abandoned their vehicle on Old Main Road and fled.
ET’s Tony Lokker assisted SAPS members to apprehend one. “Through our CCPO radios and quick circulation of the description of a second suspect, a CCPO committee member spotted and apprehended him,” he said. They were handed over to Isipingo SAPS. Unfortunately two escaped. Two flat screen televisions were recovered from the vehicle, but police could not find any firearms on the apprehended suspects.
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“When you come through Toti, you are going to have us to deal with most of the time. We have a large network of officers who share the CCPO radios that cover a wide area, so the net is difficult to escape from,” said CCPO committee member, George Snodey.
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