Gqeberha K9 unit arrests cable thief AND housebreaking suspects
The K9 unit in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, successfully arrested a cable thief and two housebreaking suspects on Saturday.
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The K9 unit in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, successfully arrested a cable thief and two housebreaking suspects on Saturday.
A prolonged electricity outage at the weekend cost some Nelson Mandela Bay businesses thousands of rand, prompting them to rethink expansion plans.
Theft of copper cables have dire negative consequences which poses a serious threat to our infrastructure and impacts largely on service delivery. Continuous efforts are made by Gqeberha’s K9 unit and the relevant authorities to arrest perpetrators of such theft. In three separate incidents in the last two days, four suspects were arrested and in
Algoa Park residents assumed neatly dug up trenches near Whyteleaf Drive to remove underground cables was the work of Nelson Mandela Bay officials — but after the digging continued at night, three men were later arrested by the police’s K9 Unit.
Gqeberha police apprehended four suspects and confiscated seven metres of copper cable as they intensify efforts to curb cable theft in and around Nelson Mandela Bay.