PRETORIA - The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) has noted with grave concern and disappointment the unfounded allegations at reports by the media and in particular the Sowetan (05 January 2016) under the headline "Gloves off for Top Cops", alleging a serious standoff between…
LIMPOPO - The Provincial Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Major General Thobeka Jozi has lauded her team for responding swiftly and arrest a suspect who allegedly held captive four Zimbabwean nationals. The four victims aged between 15 and 20 were allegedly kept…
Pretoria, Tuesday 3 January 2017: The Acting National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane, has taken note of the judgement handed down in the Durban High Court today. Lieutenant General Betty Mmamonnye Ngobeni had previously filed an execution application to…
WESTERN CAPE - A former Municipal manager Martin Noël Pietersen (60) is due to learn his fate next year, when the George Magistrate's Court decides his future. Pietersen is set to be sentenced on the 30th of March 2017 following sweeping investigations by the Serious…
Pretoria, Thursday 22 December 2016: The South African Police Service (SAPS) has noted with concern that a hoax (or so-called satirical) media report has been published online which claims, inter alia, that police stations will be closed on 25 and 31 December 2016 - that…
Members from the Anti-Corruption Unit of the Hawks arrested three suspects aged 34,36 and 52 on Tuesday in George, amongst the arrested was the examiner and his assistance as well as a foreign national. The trio have been on the unit’s radar for a while…
Thabo Nohashe (23) and Bronwen Bandile Qongqo (26) have made a brief appearance at the Athlone Magisrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with the murder of Constable Amanda Ladlokova and wounding of her colleague in November 2016. The officers had just finished serving a protection…
The Gauteng Hawks have arrested two of their after they allegedly insisted on R100 000 pay out to squash a case. The two, Sergeant Sithembo Moses Dlamini (54) and Captain Saul Thulani Mdletshe were arrested on Friday after they conspired to pocket R100 000 from a suspect…
The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Lieutenant General Ntlemeza has welcomed the judgement handed down by the Kimberley High Court against John Fikile Block (49), former MEC of Finance, Tourism and Economic Affairs and his business associate. The former MEC along…
The shutdown of twenty (20) Illegal gambling sites last week seems to have instituted a dominos effect as the North West Hawks dismantled an additional ten (10) sites in various towns around the North West during the termination of project Gremlin on Monday. The intelligence…