Three people were arrested on 9 May by EMPD, included a 71-year-old gogo, and narcotics valued at more than R15K confiscated in Eden Park. Officers patrolling on Suzuki Road stopped and searched a suspicious looking 46-year-old man and a 71-year-old gogo, uncovering 19 Ziplock bags and a

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) impounded an unlawfully registered and licenced vehicle in Benoni on 5 May. Members of the EMPD, while on foot patrol and monitoring queues at SASSA building in Alston Road, noticed a suspicious-looking parked silver BMW 1 series with a faded colour licence disc displayed on the front windscreen. According to […]

With alert level one lockdown in place, festivities are gaining momentum and tents are being erected, some blocking the roadway and causing motorists and pedestrians to seek alternative routes. In addition, tarred roads are slowly deteriorating as once the pegs knocked into them to balance tents are removed they tend to result in holes that […]

Received a traffic offence fine but it’s not your car and you weren’t in that area at that time? Motorists are advised to carefully examine the fine as it contains the call centre’s number for any queries they may have about the fine; they must also check whether the offense recorded is correct. According to […]

Two suspects spotted in New Modder Road in Benoni digging for copper cables where arrested by  EMPD, along with the equipment they were using, in September 2020. On 21 April 2021, the Benoni magistrate’s court found Mthokozisi Dlamini and Sibusiso Mandleni guilty of tampering, damage and destruction of the electricity infrastructure and handed down a […]

Law enforcers patrolling the Gumbi area in Daveyton on Wednesday morning, 21 April, came across an open trench and no suspects in sight.  On further investigation, officers caught a group of men in the act of cutting electrical lines inside the trench. While some suspects ran when they saw the law enforcers, three were not […]

During a routine patrol at the energy planning storage facility a security officer heard a suspicious noise. The guard looked through the palisade fence and saw an unknown man carrying something in his hand, later identified as a transformer control panel valued at R38 000.   She quickly called for backup and the man was apprehended […]

The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department released crime successes and car accidents statistics for between 19 April and 25 April that saw 13 arrests. Statistics show the following relating to crime: AREA Date Arrest Offense Nigel 20 April 2 Possession of 49x ziplocks of crystal meth and 23x ziplocks of khat worth R21 200 Putfontein 22 […]

The South African Police Service`s (SAPS) Crime Intelligence Services in conjunction with that of the Ekurhuleni`s Metropolitan Police made a staggering seizure of counterfeit Cigarettes worth millions of rands on the N12 Freeway over the past weekend. Counterfeit and dangerous illicit cigarettes, which were being illegally transported into the country almost every month,

Eight male suspects were arrested on Thursday, 22 April, and a reported robbed/hijacked heavy motor vehicle and semi-trailer recovered in Putfontein during crime operations by the EMPD. At 07h30, eye hawked Metro police officers were stopped by concerned members of the community about suspected shady characters with suspicious motor vehicles frequenting one of the nearby