Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) in Nigel arrested two suspect for possession of narcotics during the anti-drugs operation in Nigel on 20 April. The operation took a stop-and-search form. The two suspects aged 29 and 39 old were found idling on Reitz and Kerk streets respectively.

Patrolling Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) officer discovered a plastic bag filled with dagga on Zestfontein Road in Petit on 18 April. According to EMPD Media Liaison Officer Thabiso Makgato, members of the Equestrian Unit discovered a suspicious black plastic bag on the ground during their morning rounds in the area. Makgato says officers stopped […]

A truck loaded with Illegal cigarettes smuggled into the country was stopped was confiscated and an arrest made following a crime intelligence information on the N17 Springs freeway on 17 April. Member of Mayoral Committee for Community safety Pheladi Mmoko and Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) members caught and impounded a truck smuggling illicit cigarettes. […]

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) arrested two suspects for possession of illicit cigarettes in Birchleigh on13 April. Officers following a tip-off by concerned members of the community about suspicious activities in a property in Birchleigh, they raided the house and uncovered boxes of illicit cigarettes. According to EMPD media liaison officer Thabiso

Swift action of law enforcers led to a successful arrest of copper cable thieves in Benoni on Tuesday, 6 April.  Two suspects, a South African citizen and a Mozambican national, were caught in the act of stealing copper cables at Voortrekker Bridge in Benoni. The suspects were caught with 2m x 185mm square and three […]

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) arrested and two suspects for possession of a hijacked vehicle and an unlicensed firearm in, Ivory Park Thembisa on 6 April. EMPD Spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng said officers accosted a silver VW Jetta which had been reportedly hijacked in Boksburg earlier on the day “The EMPD Specialized Task Team, on crime […]

The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department`s Drug Unit officers arrested two members of the public suspected of dealing in drugs on Thursday the 8th of April 2021. According to officer Kobeli Mokheseng, “two suspects were napped during a routine patrol in Katlehong when they were stopped and frisked only to fine that they were in possession […]

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) issued traffic fines to transgressors and detained intoxicated drivers between 4 and 5 April in Boksburg, Dawn Park, Duduza and Nigel. Officers in Dawn Park arrested 21 allegedly intoxicated motorists between 4pm and the morning of 5 April. The drivers between the ages of 22 and 45 failed the sobriety […]

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) arrested four drivers while two of their stationary branded official motor vehicles were damaged by a loose truck wheel in Meadowdale on 5 April. Officers monitoring the N12 freeway off-ramp in Meadowdale, zoned 120km/h, apprehended a 31-year-old driver, for clocking 175km/h. The driver claiming that he was rushing his

Between 2 and 3 April in Alberton, Boksburg and Germiston the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) issued traffic fines to lawbreakers, impounded a runaway motor vehicle and arrested intoxicated drivers including one for excessive speeding. The EMPD staged roving roadblocks on 03 April in Boksburg, Germiston and Wadeville where 32 alleged intoxicated drivers