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Nelson Mandela Bay law enforcement officials are waging an ongoing war against criminal elements damaging and dismantling the metro’s infrastructure.

Police are not ruling out the possibility of a murder investigation after a cable was found wrapped around the neck of a suspected copper cable thief whose body was retrieved from a wastewater reactor at the Driftsands Wastewater Treatment Works in Forest Hill on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said an inquest docket had been opened for investigation after the body of a man in his 20s was pulled out of the reactor by police divers.

The war on cable theft in Nelson Mandela Bay has turned deadly after a neighbourhood watch patroller in Kariega was killed on Tuesday morning while confronting the suspected thieves.

Persistent patrols in hotspot areas paid off when a cable thief and housebreaking suspects were arrested by members of the K9 unit in Gqeberha yesterday, 24 September 2022. In the first incident, at about 05:30, two K9 members were on foot patrol with their dogs, Max and Diesel at a common spot where cable thieves

Police in Gqeberha successfully arrested a cable thief and two housebreaking suspects on Saturday with the help of 'officer' Max.