Gewapende Rooftogte, Transito en Kapings in Suid Afrika!!!! - Stormfront
Gewapende Rooftogte, Transito en Kapings in Suid Afrika!!!!
03-01-2005, 03:06 AM #1
Vulstasies 'sagte teiken'
Byna 'n miljoen rand in November geroof
Rowers het in November byna 'n miljoen rand tydens gewapende rooftogte by vulstasies oor Suid-Afrika heen gebuit.
Luidens statistieke van die oliebedryf se subkomitee vir kleinhandelveiligheid het 35 rooftogte in November plaasgevind, waarvan 24 in Gauteng alleen was. Die verdagtes kon daarin slaag om met R939 000 weg te kom.
Mnr. Cobus Marx , voorsitter van die subkomitee, het by navraag gesê altesaam 146 verdagtes was hierby betrokke. Luidens hul statistieke het die polisie in November landwyd net vier verdagtes in verband met gewapende rooftogte by vulstasies in hegtenis geneem.
Die polisie in Kroonstad het verlede Dinsdag twee vermeende rowers in hegtenis geneem ná 'n rooftog vroeër die oggend waartydens R9 000 by 'n vulstasie in die stad gebuit is. Die eienaar van 'n vulstasie in Roodepoort, wes van Johannesburg, sê hy vrees vir sy lewe ná 'n mislukte rooftog en 'n inbraak waartydens R120 000 gesteel is. Volgens mnr. Barries Barnard van die Ruhamah -vulstasie het twee van die verdagtes -- petroljoggies in sy diens -- nie teruggekeer werk toe nie nadat een van hulle 'n poligraaftoets gedop het. "Die klaer gaan nou die oorledene word. Hulle gaan terugkom vir my, ek wéét dit."
Vier rowers het Barnard op 8 Oktober oorval toe hy vroegoggend by die vulstasie opgedaag het. Hy het hulle met sy vuurwapen verwilder en het ongedeerd daarvan afgekom.
Inbrekers het op 29 November weer toegeslaan en R120 000 en 'n rewolwer uit sy kluis gesteel.
'n "Onwillige" speurder het dié dag 'n verklaring by Barnard afgeneem. "Ek kon sien hy was haastig. Hy wou net loop. Hoe meer ek probeer verduidelik wat gebeur het, hoe minder wou hy weet -- so asof ek hom irriteer."
Barnard, wat vermoed het dat 'n petroljoggie moontlik by die twee voorvalle betrokke kon wees, het sy werkers aan poligraaftoetse onderwerp. Hoewel een van hulle die poligraaftoets gedop het, het die speurder hom "nie hieraan gesteur nie".
"Ons sit gemiddeld 16 uur per daghier in. Dit is 'n harde bedryf dié en daar is baie risiko's, maar vir die polisie is dit net nog 'n saak."
Supt. Milica Bezuidenhout, polisiewoordvoerder aan die Wes-Rand, het bevestig niemand is nog in verband met die twee voorvalle in hegtenis geneem nie. Volgens haar word die uitslae van poligraaftoetse nie in die howe aanvaar nie en moet speurders ander bewysstukke vind.
Marx het gesê werknemers is wetend en onwetend betrokke by tot 90% van die misdaadverwante voorvalle by vulstasies. "Verdagtes bekom dikwels inligting deur bloot net met die petroljoggies te gesels."
Volgens hom het misdaad by die 4 900 vulstasies oor Suid-Afrika heen dramaties afgeneem sedert die veiligheidsforum in Junie 2001 gestig is. Die forum verteenwoordig almal in die bedryf en vergader maandeliks om onder meer misdaadstatistieke te versamel.
Gewapende rooftogte, transitorooftogte en kapings by vulstasies het afgeneem van sowat 700 voorvalle in 2001 tot sowat 400 in 2003.
"Die bedryf het sedert 2001 tot 'n miljard rand bestee om veiligheid by vulstasies te verbeter. Dit bly egter 'n sagte teiken omdat daar soveel kontant is -- vulstasies verkoop gemiddeld 200 000 F brandstof elk per maand."
Inligting rondom vulstasies en rooftogte:
Daar is landwyd 4 900 vulstasies wat werk aan sowat 70 000 mense verskaf.
Rooftogte het sedert 2001 van 700 per jaar tot sowat 400 in 2003 afgeneem.
'n Rooftog duur gemiddeld twee en 'n half minute.
Die gemiddelde verlies per rooftog was in 2001 tot R55 000. Die gemiddelde verlies is nou sowat R3 000.
Vulstasies in Gauteng, Wes-Kaap en KwaZulu-Natal word die meeste beroof.
Daar was sedert Junie tot November vanjaar 240 gewapende rooftogte, transitorooftogte en kapings by vulstasies. Sowat 11 mense het van Junie tot November gesterf.
03-01-2005, 03:14 AM #2
Re: Gewapende Rooftogte, Transito en Kapings in Suid Afrika!!!!
Veiligheid vanuit die lug
NELSPRUIT - ‘n Nuwe lugvaartsekuri-teits- en nooddiensmaatskappy, wat tonele tot so ver as Lydenburg binne 14 minute ná ‘n noodoproep kan bereik, sal binnekort vanaf die Mpumalanga-hoofstad bedryf word.
Helicomserve beoog om teen April ten volle operasioneel te wees en sal aanvanklik die plaasgemeenskappe in ‘n 100km-radius van Nelspruit bedien.
Volgens mnr. Mark Loretz, bemarkings-bestuurder, beskik Helicomserve oor die nuutste en gevorderdste tegnologie om in die minimum reaksietyd, van so hoog as 12 000 voet in die lug, in uiterste weerstoestande op noodoproepe te kan reageer. Die maatskappy is die enigste in die land wat oor dié toerusting beskik.
Helicomserve kan ‘n verskeidenheid dienste lewer. Dit sluit in lewensbedrei-gende mediese noodgevalle, plaasaanvalle, gewapende rooftogte, kapings, motorongelukke, pro-aktiewe hoë-sigbaarheidsoperasies, vervoer van mediese personeel na tonele, beveiliging van misdaadtonele en die opsporing, monitor en verfilming van verdagtes wat te voet of in ‘n voertuig beweeg.
Volgens Loretz beoog Helicomserve om nou saam met die plaaslike sekuriteitsektor te werk. "Daar is ‘n groot behoefte vir so ‘n diens in die area, maar dit kan weens die hoë operasionele kostes nie sonder die gemeenskap se samewerking suksesvol wees nie," sê hy.
Navrae: Mnr. Mark Loretz by 013-747-2163 of 082-464-6336.
03-02-2005, 01:09 PM #3
Rowers slaan onverwags toe op gesinsaak
Boksburg. - "Toe hy daardie vuurwapen oorhaal en ek sien die patroon skuif in die loop in, het ek geweet hy gaan skiet. Ek het net gebid niemand moet hulle teensit nie, want die vuurwapen was teen my gesig."
So vertel mnr. Henry Ford jnr., van verlede week se rooftog by hul gesinsonderneming, Fords Eiendomme, in Parkrand. Die onderneming is beroof minute nadat sy broer, Fransie, die kantoor binnegestap het met die loongeld wat hy kort tevore by Nedbank in Sunwardpark getrek het. Hy is vermoedelik van die bank af agtervolg.
"Fransie was reeds in die gang toe ek, wat in die ontvangsdeel gestaan het, iemand buite hoor hardloop het. Ek het deur se kant toe beweeg. Die deur was oop en die volgende oomblik het 'n man in die kantoor gestaan, en sy eerste woorde was: 'The bag.' Ek het nie 'n idee gehad wat aangaan nie. Hy het weer geskree: 'The bag, the f****n bag', en 'n 9 mm-pistool uitgeruk.
"Veronica, die ontvangsdame, was te bang om te beweeg. Toe hy die vuurwapen oorhaal en teen my gesig druk, kon ek sien hoe haar lippe beweeg soos sy gesit en bid het, maar geen geluid het uit haar mond gekom nie. Toe Fransie die lawaai hoor, het hy die ontvangsgebied binnegestap en die rower het weer geskree: 'The bag', waarna hy dit na die rower gegooi het. In daardie stadium het nog drie rowers die kantoor binnegestorm."
Die rowers het die sak geld gegryp en na hul wagtende, oopdeurmotor langs die parkeergebied by 'n stopstraat gehardloop, ingespring en weggejaag. Hoewel Henry, Fransie, hul ma mev. Cynthia Ford, en hul pa, Henry sr., almal agterna gehadloop het, het die rowers ontvlug.
Die wit Honda Ballade waarin die rowers gevlug het, het 'n vals nommerplaat opgehad, het supt. Andy Pieke, polisiewoordvoeder, agterna gesê.
'n Ondersoeker van Nedbank het ná die voorval aan die gesin gesê personeel in die bank het 'n man opgemerk wat die hele tyd wat Fransie in die bank geld onttrek het, voorgegee het hy vul 'n depositostrokie in. Die oomblik toe Fransie die geld gevat en geloop het, het die man ook sy pen neergesit en geloop. Dit was vermoedelik die bestuurder van die wegkomkar.
03-22-2005, 10:52 AM #4
Highway heist drama in city
One of South Africa's most wanted cash-in-transit robbery suspects was brought down in a hail of bullets during a foiled cash heist in Pretoria yesterday.
The 33-year-old man, whom police are not naming until his next of kin have been told he is dead, was killed along with a fellow alleged robber while attacking a Coin Security cash van at the DF Malan Drive-Staatsartillerie Road intersection in lunch-time traffic yesterday.
The bullet-riddled bodies of the two men, who died during a shoot-out with security guards, were found clutching an unlicensed R4 semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm pistol
"With these killings there are now two fewer such criminals to worry about"
Police say the men were part of an 18-member gang known to specialise in cash-in-transit heists and bank robberies.
The syndicate - which includes residents of Soshanguve, Atteridgeville and Mamelodi - is thought to be responsible for at least 20 heists throughout the country.
The two, along with five other accomplices, ambushed and opened fire on the cash van while other traffic drove past. They had forced the van to a stop by using a stolen BMW to block its path.
The van had a cash cargo of more than R2-million at the time.
The suspects, armed with assault rifles, including AK47s, retreated when the guards returned fire, killing the two as they tried to escape into a densely-wooded piece of veld.
Police using sniffer dogs, a spotter plane and a helicopter began a hunt for the surviving suspects after spotting blood trails leading into the veld.
Three other suspects were apparently injured during the fire-fight.
The abandoned BMW, which had several bullet holes in it, and a bakkie believed to have been the getaway vehicle, were found in Pretoria West, several kilometres from the scene.
A detective said: "With these killings there are now two fewer such criminals to worry about."
Praising the guards' bravery, police Captain Piletji Sebola said they had to fight fire with fire when it came to such crimes: "We cannot allow these people to get away with such brazen and violent crimes."
Sebola said the robbers had failed to get away with any money.
He said the guards foiled the well-planned attack when they refused to hand over the money and returned fire when the robbers began shooting at them. Sebola said none of the guards or passing motorists were injured in the attack.
Coin Security's corporate services managing director, Christo Terblanche, said the guards were travelling between pick-up points in Pretoria when the shoot-out erupted.
He said the guards had reacted exactly in the way in which they had been trained to, using the latest technology which allowed them to fight back from both inside and outside the vehicle.
Terblanche said the guards would receive a reward from both Coin and the police for foiling the attempted heist.
03-24-2005, 07:13 AM #5
S.Africa: Two cops hijacked, one killed
[Even the Police aren't safe any more!!! Ah! Don't forget... President Mbeki (that great stand-up comedian) said a few weeks back that crime was going down... Yeah right...
Let me digress into a bit of South African history: Interestingly, Tweefontein, where this crime occurred is the site of quite an amazing guerilla raid during the Boer war a century ago which I was recently reading about. At Tweefontein, General De Wet launched an attack on a British camp on a hill and soundly whipped them. There was a British army of 20,000 in the vicinity of Tweefontein while the Boer General, De Wet, had only about 600-700 men. De Wet decided to try attacking the British! So he singled out one of their camps for a night attack. The British were encamped on a hill and had built entrenchments all around it. The Boers climbed up the steepest side of the hill in the night when the British least expected it. 500 Boers attacked 400 British and shot them to bits. The Boers lost 44 men, and the British 116. The Boers captured their guns and many other things and made off with them.
Interestingly, one of the British survivors of the attack told that the Boers were so impoverished that a number of them even wore women's clothing because they had no other clothes to wear. Prior to this... the British had sent 60,000 troops in a broad sweep to try to capture De Wet... but De Wet and his men slipped through the British lines...
Sadly... South Africa is no longer a preside of gallantry and great deeds... but a nation of losers and filth... where criminal scum get to kill anyone in any way that they please - even the Police!! Jan]
Nelspruit - Not even police officers are safe from hijackers.
Two officers, one of whom was killed, were hijacked in police cars in Mpumalanga at the weekend.
The first hijacking took place on Friday.
A police minibus, that had earlier been used for members of a police brass band, was hijacked while parked at a low-cost housing development in Tweefontein.
Three men shot a police inspector in the chest and he died at the roadside. A woman who was in the minibus was shot in the right leg.
Both were forced out the vehicle and the robbers drove off. The woman is recovering at KwaMhlanga Hospital.
The vehicle, with registration BNP 104 B, has not been recovered and no arrests have been made yet.
On Sunday, about 20:00, an off-duty police captain was hijacked of a Mmamethlake police car she had used to visit her sister at Siyabuswa.
Garage robbed, minibus hijacked
As she was about to leave, a hijacker held her up and took the car, a white Mazda 323, registration CPZ 315 MP.
There have been no arrests and the car hasn't been recovered.
Three civilians were hijacked in the area at the weekend.
On Friday, a motorist picked up a hitchhiker in Vosman, only to be held up and robbed of R300.
The hitchhiker made off with the minibus, registration BBN 168 MP. No arrests have been made yet and the minibus is still missing.
On Sunday, the Engen garage in Vosman was robbed of R130 000 and the robbers hijacked a minibus to make their getaway.
It was later recovered, but no arrests have been made.
On Monday, a supermarket in Kwarrilaagte near Dennilton turned into a war zone when a security guard and five robbers exchanged gunfire.
The guard was killed and a customer abducted and forced to use his minibus for the attackers to flee.
The customer was able to press an alarm that alerted Netstar, however, and the minibus was later found abandoned, after the driver had been dumped in the veld.
05-02-2005, 11:07 AM #6
Gewapende roof op Naboomspruit
Tydens ’n gewapende rooftog op Maandag, 11 April, ongeveer 5 km buite Naboomspruit is daar R10 000 gebuit. Vier mans het die oggend werk gesoek by mnr. Nazier Tiry op sy hoewe Zitundo, naby Tobias. Nadat hy aan hulle gesê het dat daar nie werk vir hulle is nie, het hulle die plaas verlaat. Tiry bedryf ’n vervoeronderneming vanaf sy hoewe.
Om kwart voor tien die oggend was die mans weer terug met drie handwapens waarmee hulle Tiry en die werkers aangehou en in die kantoor toegesluit het. Hulle het met R10 000 en almal se selfone gevlug.
’n Bestuurder van ’n afleweringsvoertuig vanaf Tzaneen het al die gebeure gesien en kon vir die polisie ’n aanduiding gee in watter rigting die rowers gevlug het.
Polisie en spoorsnyers was gou op die toneel sowel as ’n helikopter van die polisie. Spore is gevolg tot by die grasdakstalletjie op die pad na Mokopane (Potgietersrus) waar dit weggeraak het. Terwyl hierdie operasie aan die gang was, het rowers ’n motor in Polokwane (Pietersburg) gekaap nadat hulle aanvanklik ’n saamrygeleentheid gevra het.
Naby Mokopane is die eienaar van die motor, vermoedelik ’n dr. Charles Molekana van Roodepoort, met ’n vuurwapen aangehou. Die rowers het deur die tolhek gejaag sonder om te betaal. Hulle spoed was op daardie stadium nie te hoog nie en Molekana het ’n kans gewaag en uit die motor gespring. Naby Naboomspruit het hulle egter gemerk dat ’n polisie helikopter bokant hulle sirkel. Hulle het nie besef die helikopter is op soek na die rowers wat die geld op Tobias geroof het nie, en was onder die indruk dat daar na hulle gesoek word.
Hulle het toe van die pad af getrek en die motor, ’n Toyota Corolla, net langs die N1 aan die agterkant van die Agri-depot gelaat en gevlug. Terwyl spoorsnyers op hulle spoor was, is nog drie skote gehoor en hulle was nie seker of die rowers dalk nog ’n motor probeer kaap het nie.
Op Vrydag, 1 April, is ongeveer R30 000 geroof op die plaas Doornfontein tussen Roedtan en Marble Hall. Sewe rowers het mnr. Monty Allison van Alpha Farming na sewe-uur die oggend genader met AK47- gewere. Hulle het toe die geld en sy Hilux-bakkie geroof. Die bakkie is later in Siabushua gevind.
In Naboom het huisbrake die afgelope maand toegeneem en ses ernstige inbrake het voorgekom asook drie inbrake uit voertuie. Op Vrydag, 8 April, is daar ook in Negende straat by mnr. Marius Maitment ingebreek terwyl hulle geslaap het. Klanktoerusting is gesteel terwyl niemand in die huis wakker geword het nie. Maitment het self sy aktetas die volgende dag in die oop veld oorkant sy huis opgetel asook ’n klompie laserskywe.
Mnr. Freek Swanepoel, ‘n prokureur op Naboom, het reeds vier onwelkome besoeke in een maand by sy huis gehad.
05-04-2005, 02:49 PM #7
Three men convicted of hijacking an ambulance and sexually assaulting two paramedics last year were given lengthy jail sentences by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday.
A provincial spokesperson for the department of health, Lindiwe Khuzwayo, said the department welcomed the sentences.
"We hope they will send a strong message to potential hijackers and rapists, that the hijacking of ambulances and state employees will be met with the full might of the law," she said.
Siphesihle Khumalo and Mbusiswa Zondi, both of Taylor's Halt, and Thamsanqa Buthelezi of Mayville, Durban, received 25 years, 20 years, and 25 years plus life imprisonment respectively.
The paramedics, a man and a woman, were on duty on February 17 last year at a clinic in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg, when they received false reports of an emergency from one of the men.
When the ambulance arrived the female driver was accosted and a gun was pointed at her male colleague. Both were ordered out.
Buthelezi forced the Grey's Hospital ambulance worker to have sex with her colleague before raping her.
The man and his accomplices then robbed the two of personal belongings before fleeing in the ambulance.
The incident last year highlighted safety issues affecting paramedics in KwaZulu-Natal after a spate of ambulance hijackings hit the province.
Said Khuzwayo and police spokesperson Superintendent Joshua Gwala at the time: "The men and women of the emergency services are there to save lives of the very people who are committing crimes against them.
"We therefore appeal to the community to help us stop these incidents. It is time that we, the police and community, work together to put a stop to these crimes."
A R50 000 reward was offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the men.
Khuzwayo said the department believed the sentence would go a long way in assuring health employees that crimes committed against them were being taken seriously.
"They risk their lives in ensuring the well-being of the communities they serve day and night," she said
05-05-2005, 03:44 AM #8
May 05 2005 at 07:45AM
Armed gangs are targeting supermarket chains across Gauteng with military precision.
Owners believe they are sitting ducks for the gangs, which at times number up to 18 members.
Kenny Fihla, the chief executive officer of Business Against Crime, agrees, saying there has been a significant shift away from bank robberies to these "softer" targets.
"There has been a steady decrease in bank robberies over the past few years and an increase in supermarket robberies," he said.
'You only hear about these robberies when a policeman dies'
Fihla believes that one of the reasons is the police's success in clamping down on bank robberies.
But the Consumer Goods Council's crime prevention programme, which monitors about 4 500 supermarkets, believes it is winning the war against the gangs - at least in Gauteng.
The CGC monitors most major chain stores, including Clicks, Massmart, Metcash, Pick 'n Pay, Shoprite Checkers, Spar and Woolworths.
It provides franchises with instant SMS alerts on robberies in the area and profiles of suspects to look out for.
In addition, the council has created a central incident-management database to compile records of crimes.
Recently, Constable Johan Slabbert, 22, and his partner, Inspector Bennie Kganyago, 38, were shot at while responding to a robbery at the Princess Crossing shopping centre in Roodepoort.
Six armed men robbed the Pick 'n Pay in the centre. Four of them fled, but the other two stayed behind to hold up a cellphone shop. Slabbert and Kganyago fatally shot one of the robbers. They wounded and arrested the other, but not before they themselves were wounded.
Slabbert was airlifted to hospital, where he lay in a coma before dying last Thursday. He will be buried on Friday.
A franchise owner, who wished to remain anonymous, said the gangs regarded the stores as soft targets and said robberies were on the increase.
"You only hear about these robberies when a policeman dies. Six months ago, there were about one or two armed robberies every now and then, but now there are about three or four a week," he said.
Michael Broughton, director of the CGC's crime prevention programme, disagrees, claiming that armed robberies have in fact decreased in the past year.
"A year ago we were losing about R2-million a year, and we have now brought it down to under R1-million. That franchise owner thinks that the robberies are increasing only because he is now regularly receiving the SMS alerts," he said.
Broughton says that about 15 supermarkets are raided every month across the country, of which 80 percent occur in Gauteng.
"We are continually training our members and making them aware of these incidents and how to deal with them.
"I think we are winning with the help of the police. In December last year, 13 robbers held up a store in Johannesburg and made off with only R692.
"This was a success for us," he said.
The gangs' modus operandi is to storm a store with up to 18 members, holding up staff and customers at gunpoint. Within minutes they will clean out the cash registers and sometimes also rob the customers.
The franchise owner said: "This is done with military precision and will be over within three or four minutes.
"They execute it so well that we are now seeing a trend of them robbing two places in the same vicinity."
Fihla said Business Against Crime was working with the CGC and banks to incorporate some of their best practices to combat these robberies.
"There is no doubt that these gangs are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but we are confident that we will be able to deal with them."
Gauteng police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said the police were clamping down on these gangs.
"We are continually working with all interested parties to detect and arrest the culprits in these robberies. In addition to our investigations, we are also constantly formulating strategies to deal with these gangs.
"There is no crisis over the armed robberies. We take each one very seriously," she said.
05-05-2005, 04:02 AM #9
Welkom in die paradys!!!!!
Donker dag vir toerisme toe skote klap aan Wildekus
KOFFIEBAAI. - Dinsdag was 'n swart dag vir toerisme aan die Wildekus ná twee aparte aanvalle hier op buitelandse besoekers.
Albei skietvoorvalle het op die pad tussen Koffiebaai en die Kwaaiman-gebied gebeur.
'n Nederlandse egpaar en 'n paartjie van Denemarke wat in die Oos-Kaap vakansie hou, het eergisteraand onder die koeëls deurgeloop.
Volgens supt. Nondumiso Jafta, polisiewoordvoerder, het die aanvallers skote op die toeriste se voertuie gevuur.
Niemand is in die aanvalle beseer nie.
Die Nederlandse egpaar het ná die skietery glo onmiddellik hul motor tot stilstand gebring.
Gelukkig vir die besoekers was 'n taxi agter hulle in die pad. Die bestuurder van die taxi het stilgehou, die toeriste en hul bagasie opgelaai en hulle na 'n nabygeleë hotel geneem.
Volgens Jafta het die aanval op die Dene eerste plaasgevind, maar hulle het verder gery en die voorval by die Koffiebaai-polisiekantoor gaan aanmeld.
Mnr. Bobby Stevenson, DA-woordvoerder oor veiligheid en sekuriteit, het gister die situasie betreur, maar ook die taxi-bestuurder geprys vir sy heldhaftige optrede.
Volgens Stevenson is dit noodsaaklik dat toeriste nie afgeskrik word om die Oos-Kaap te besoek nie, aangesien dit 'n bedryf is met 'n groot potensiaal vir werkskepping.
Stevenson het 'n beroep op die gemeenskap gedoen om die polisie by te staan in die opspoor van die aanvallers om sodoende toeriste gerus te stel.
Komm. Johan Kapp, areakommissaris van Mthatha, het gister 'n beroep op die nuutgevonde toeristebeskermingseenheid gedoen om aandag te skenk aan veral die veiligheid van motoriste in die gebied.
Die saak word deur die polisie se eenheid teen ernstige geweldsmisdaad ondersoek.
Daar word vermoed dat die twee voorvalle met mekaar verband hou.
05-05-2005, 05:10 AM #10
Polisielede verdink van vragkapings - En dit is die waarheid hulle is daarby betrokke.
Verskeie roofmetodes aangewend.
Germiston. - "Ons is daarvan oortuig dat lede van verskeie metropolisie-eenhede , die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens of mense wat hulle as metropolisie- en polisielede voordoen, by die kaping van vragmotors betrokke is.
Ons kon dit nog net nie bewys nie."
Dit was verlede week die woorde van kapt. Buks Hattingh, bevelvoerder van die Oos-Randse vragmotorkapingseenheid in Germiston, wat sê "by agt uit tien voorvalle van vragmotorkapings word beweer daar was lede van die metropolisie of die polisie betrokke, wat ook van blou ligte op hul motors gebruik maak om die voertuie te stop. Daardie bewerings kan tog nie almal verkeed wees nie."
Oor die kaping van vragmotors, wat volgens Hattingh 'n onrusbarende probleem is waarby miljoene rande jaarliks betrokke is, sê dié deurtrapte speurder dat as daar nie 'n afsetgebied is nie, sal daar nie kapings wees nie.
Hattingh sê die meeste vragmotors word op Donderdae gekaap en die gewildste kapingstyd is tussen 16:00 en 20:00. Hy sê in baie gevalle is die rooftogte sogenaamde handovers. Dit beteken die bestuurders van die vragmotors werk saam met die rowers.
Daar is twee maniere waarop vragmotors gekaap en geroof word.
"Die gewildste metode is waar iemand in 'n Gautengse metropolisie-uniform 'n aankomende vragmotor voorkeer. Die rowers slaan dan op die vragmotor toe en die uniform-man verdwyn.
"Die bestuurder en sy bemanning word gewoonlik in die rowers se voertuig geprop en ure later elders afgelaai. Dan eers kan die roof aangemeld word en teen daardie tyd is die rowers met die vragmotor en sy vrag skoonveld. Hulle word gewoonlik aangehou totdat die rowers 'n selfoonoproep ontvang dat die vrag veilig is."
Hattingh sê nog 'n gewilde
kapingsmetode is waar 'n voertuig verby die vragmotor ry en aan die bestuurder beduie word dat iets aan die agterkant van die vragmotor verkeerd is. Sodra die bestuurder stilhou en uitklim om ondersoek te gaan instel, word hy oorval en die vragmotor geroof.
Hy sê prostitute word ook by die kaping van vragmotors ingespan. Die rowers gebruik die vroue om langs die pad te staan sodat die bestuurder stilhou om hulle op te laai. Sodra hy stilhou, word hy oorval en die vragmotor gekaap.
"Ons vind vragmotors wat in die Pietermaritzburg- en die Harrysmith-omgewing geroof word, gewoonlik aan die Oos-Rand uitkom, en dié wat aan die Oos-Rand geroof word gewoonlik in KwaZulu-Natal teruggevind word. Omdat die N3 die hoofroete tussen KwaZulu-Natal en Gauteng is, vind die meeste kapings op die roete plaas.
"Ons het so 50% sukses met die herwinning van vragte en vind baie vragte in pakhuise. Dit wil voorkom of veral Portugese, Indiërs en Grieke die grootste ontvangers van die gesteelde vragte is."
Hattingh sê daar is ook groot sindikate by die kapings betrokke.
DIE DUIWEL IS LOS IN SUID-AFRIKA Afrikaner777 Suid Afrikaanse Nuus en Politiek 12 09-15-2005 08:26 PM