Complex sentence: Croukamp (2005), cited by The remaining ZIPRA fighters separated and escaped over the following week, the Rhodesians locating no trace of them by 9 February 1970, on which day security force presence was reduced to local police, one helicopter and one RLI Commando.
Split into simpler sentences: Croukamp (2005), cited by The remaining ZIPRA fighters scattered and escaped the area over the following week, the Rhodesian Security Forces losing track of each one. On 9 February 1970 local security force presence was reduced to police, one helicopter and one RLI Commando.