The City of Ekurhuleni’s Executive Mayor, Cllr Mzwandile Masina honoured members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) for their long service, commendation, dedication, loyalty to serve and outstanding service. During the first of a two-day Medal Handing ceremony held at the

Three suspect will appear in court after they caught tempering with infrastructure in Elsburg. On Monday, 15 June 2021, the anti-cable theft team was patrolling the area when they spotted three men tempering with the mini substation next to the Brug and Van Reebeck Road in the area. The men were arrested on the spot […]

The City loses millions of Rands every year through illegal connections which ultimately cause damages to electricity infrastructure. Through several interventions, the City has waged war against illegal connections with little luck. Tones of cables that are illegally connected to the grid are removed by the City in its fight against illegal connection. However, there […]

The city has employed the services of private investigators who deployed a task team to conduct surveillance and arrest suspects at the identified hotspot areas across the city. On Monday, 24 May, cable theft suspects arrived at Modder Road in Benoni to steal cables, and the law enforcement officers pounced on them. One suspect was […]

Security personnel contracted to the City have arrested two men for cable theft and vandalism of essential infrastructure on Friday morning. The security personal were doing their routine patrols when they accosted the two men who were cutting and stealing streetlight copper cables on Tonk Meter Road in Springs. The trench dug by suspects measured […]

Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested during the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department’s (EMPD) Operation Kurhula in Buhle Park on 22 May. Officers patrolling the area stopped and searched the duo who looked suspicious in Endwell Street arrested. According to EMPD Media Liaison Officer Thabiso Makgato, upon searching officers uncovered 51x ziplocks crystal meth, 45

Sniffer dogs aided members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) to arrest a female suspect who concealed narcotics inside the soles of packaged shoes in Elandsfontein on 11 May.   The arrest occurred at a well-known courier company after EMPD responded to a call about a suspicious looking package destined for the Netherlands. “On […]

A repeating signal of a reported stolen vehicle led the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) members to a possible chop shop and the arrest of two suspects in Etwatwa on 11 May. A well-known car tracking company requested the EMPD’s back-up after locating a signal of a reported stolen motor vehicle in Etwatwa, where officers […]

Four lawbreakers were arrested for being in possession of narcotics in Zonkizizwe during a crime prevention operation on 8 May. Patrolling EMPD officers stopped and searched three suspicious looking men and a woman, aged between 40 and 53, in Zone three. According to EMPD Spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng, officers arrested the four after uncovering 29 half […]

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) arrested an alleged hijacker after a high-speed chase that ended in Sandton on Saturday, 8 May. The EMPD freeway patrol officers at Senderwood noticed and joined the chase where a motor vehicle tracking company was in hot pursuit of a silver BMW on the N3 freeway northbound. According to EMDP […]