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Police officers have been attacked by community members while arresting undocumented foreigners at Greenside extension 44 outside Polokwane in Limpopo.
SAPS Hunts Suspects Who Attacked Police in Limpopo. Photo: SAPS Police in Limpopo, Polokwane, are hunting suspects who attacked South African Police Service (SAPS) members yesterday, Saturday 2 January. The suspects threw stones injuring SAPS members and damaging their vehicles, and helped arrested suspects escape. Limpopo’s Acting Provincial Commissioner of Police, Major General Jan Scheepers, has strongly condemned the incident and ordered that the suspects be hunted down. The attack on police occurred after an altercation during the arrest of four foreign nationals, suspected of being in South Africa illegally. One of the men was shot after allegedly brandished a knife and threatening to harm police. Following his injury, the community attacked the police.
Mob attacks Limpopo cops and frees suspected undocumented nationals Picture: iStock ‘The police will not tolerate any form of lawlessness and any attack on them will be responded to appropriately,’ said the acting provincial commissioner. Three Limpopo police officers were injured when community members in Greenside allegedly attacked them and freed four men who were arrested as undocumented foreign nationals. Police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said: “During the arrest, one of [the foreign nationals] allegedly took out a knife and advanced towards the police members, allegedly threatening to stab them, but was shot and injured. “The brother of the injured foreign national allegedly incited community members in the area to attack the police who then started throwing stones and in the process, [injured] three police members and [damaged] their three vehicles. Community members then released all arrested illegal immigrants from police vehicles,” Mojapelo said.
SABC POLICE officers have been attacked by community members while arresting undocumented foreigners at Greenside extension 44 outside Polokwane in Limpopo. Police spokesperson Motlafela Mojapelo says police were assaulted and police vehicles pelted with stones by some community members who managed to release undocumented foreign nationals from police vehicles yesterday. He says one undocumented foreigner was shot and injured after he allegedly threatened to stab a police officer. “The Acting Provincial Commissioner of Police in Limpopo, Major General Jaan Scheepers, has strongly condemned the incident that took place at Greenside extension 44 where the police came under attack by community members who managed to release undocumented foreign nationals from the police vehicle. Cases of assault on police, malicious damage to property, and other crime have been opened.”
Almost 500 held in Limpopo for not complying with level 3 Covid-19 rules Citizen reporter Limpopo police during Operation Basadi in Seshego on 9 December 2020. Picture: Twitter/@SAPoliceService Limpopo police said they would continue to clamp down on non-compliant residents until at least 15 January. Close to 500 people across Limpopo have been arrested for contravening alert level 3 restrictions. The 496 transgressors were arrested from New Year’s Eve until 1 January, in all five of the province’s districts. 149 people were arrested in the Waterberg district, four in Mopani, 146 n Capricorn, 59 in Sekhukhune and 138 in the Vhembe district. Crimes included not wearing a mask in a public space, not adhering to the 6am-to-9pm curfew, using fireworks in prohibited spaces, and for dispensing, transporting and/or consuming alcohol publicly.
Thieves steal 18 guns and bullets Joshua Sebola The security company safe from which thugs stole firearms and ammunition. POLICE have launched a manhunt for a number of suspects after 18 firearms were stolen from a security company. It’s believed the suspects broke open the door at the company’s premises in Polokwane, Limpopo, using a foreign object. They then stole firearms and ammunition from a safe, as well as a computer. The incident occurred between 26 and 27 December. Cops spokesman, Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo, told the People’s Paper police would investigate whether the firearms were being kept in accordance with firearms rules and guidelines.
Woman bust for husbandâs murder! Sun Reporter MORE than 2 000 people were arrested over the weekend. The suspects were bust for various crimes including murder, attempted murder, robbery, rape, possession of explosives, conspiracy to commit murder and sexual offences. Police spokesman Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said among the suspects is a 34-year-old woman who was arrested on Friday night, 18 December in Mpheni Village for allegedly masterminding the murder of her businessman husband. The husband was stopped by a group of suspects and shot dead in front of his gate in Thohoyandou, Limpopo. Two of the suspects were arrested after they allegedly