Pretoria, 14 March 2017: The South African Police Service is pleased to report progress on the significant breakthrough in the highly organised OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) heist which took place on Tuesday, 7th March 2017. Let us firstly use this opportunity to commend and…
Free State - The Virginia High Court has on Tuesday, 14 March 2017 imposed lengthy jail terms to 22 convicted illegal miners. Lovemore Chaba Mlambo (35) man behind all illegal operations in Masimong mine, will serve 25 years imprisonment as the charges are said to…
DPCI NATIONAL HEAD APPLAUD TWENTY YEAR IMPRISONMENT FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING GAUTENG - The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza has welcomed the hefty conviction and sentencing of Ugochukwu Eke, 32 years old to twenty (20) years direct…
Northern Cape – A Hawks’ intelligence driven investigation project has successfully disrupted and dismantled the alleged drug syndicate operating in Upington. During the project termination on Monday, 13 March 2017, five suspects aged between 30 and 38 were arrested. They were charged in connection with…
PRETORIA - The National Head of the Directorate For Priority Crime Investigation Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza is dismayed with media reports by Mr Popo Molefe suggesting the HAWKS are failing to comply with their constitutional and statutory obligations to investigate PRASA matters and to bring…
Pretoria, Friday 10 March 2017: On Thursday 9 March 2017, 33 year old Jayde Sheldon Bailey of Kabega Park, Port Elizabeth was handed down a sentence of five years imprisonment in the Port Elizabeth Regional Court for the distribution and possession of child pornography. On…
Pretoria, Thursday, 9 March 2017: The South African Police Service views the armed robbery which occurred on Tuesday night, 7 March 2017 and the attendant security breaches in a serious light. We can assure our communities and visitors to our country that we are doing…
GAUTENG - The South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) and Crime Intelligence have on Wednesday evening conducted a disruptive operation in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg where a clandestine gold and platinum manufacturing lab was disbanded. The Hawks were acting on a tip-off and when they…
Pretoria , Thursday 09 March 2017 : The Acting National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane, condemns the killing of two police officers in the Northern Cape on Wednesday afternoon. Members of the South African Police Service were responding to…
Monday, 06 March 2017: The Acting National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane, condemns in the strongest terms the senseless murder of fourteen people whose bodies were found in Benoni, Gauteng over the past two days. Initially, police discovered six…