The Welkom Public Order Police Unit has started sweeping streets and house off drugs and apprehended the peddlers as nyaope is brutal drug roaming our streets and destroying youths.
On Thursday, 26 October 2023 the members began in Phuthaditjhaba for Crime Combating duties. As the members are highly regarded by certain members of community for their excellent work, upon seeing them around, they immediately gave them information with regard to drug dealers in the area.
Their first stop was at Slovo Park near Phuthaditjhaba at an identified house where they searched the house and found one suspect aged 26 in possession of 46 nyaope sachets drugs.
The team proceeded to Sebokeng Village where they arrested 27 year-old man and woman (30) also in possession of 59 nyaope sachets and cash.
At Setsing Shopping Complex near filling station they saw suspicious man walking towards the mall, stopped and searched him. They found Drugs were found in his 44 nyaope sachets wrapped in his possession. The 30-year-old suspect was arrested.
The four arrested suspects are expected to appear before the Phuthaditjhaba Magistrate court soon facing charges of dealing in drug