Operation Fiela in Vosman a huge success
The operation was based on foreign shops as the community is complaining of expired food
The police continuously have operations, and they usually yield great results.
Operation Fiela was no different, held by Vosman SAPS on Thursday, February 14.
While love was floating in the air, numerous departments engaged in this operation such as the Department of Health, Department of Home Affairs, Department of Labour, Law Enforcement, municipality personnel, the Community Policing Forum with the Vosman Police under operational commander, Brig Delisiwe Motha.
The purpose of the operation was to ensure compliance by shop owners selling foodstuffs in terms of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, Act 54 of 1972 among others.
The operation was based on foreign shops as the community is complaining of expired food.
Shops were searched and four male foreigners were arrested for foreigner in violation of the act 13/2000.
They were between ages of 26 and 42. While police were busy searching the shops, they managed to arrest 56 male illegal immigrants between the ages of 19 and 45.
During the police search of the area, municipal members took to the streets and searched for illegal connections of water and electricity.
Those connections were successfully removed from the streets.
All the suspects who were arrested appeared in the Witbank Magistrate’s Court on Friday, February 15.
The cases were postponed to 19, 22, 25, 26 and 27 February.
The Provincial Commissioner of Mpumalanga, Lieut Genl Mondli Zuma warned shop owners to comply with the law and urged them to keep their shops clean and refrain from selling expired food as this poses a serious health hazard to consumers.
Genl Zuma is concerned on the high number of undocumented foreigners as it contributes to crime in the province
