Kimberley : 21 September 2025
As the Festive Season approaches, multi-disciplinary teams in the Northern Cape are elevating efforts to address the prevailing crime trends through the execution of Operation Shanela II, ensuring a coordinated and targeted response to crime.
These multi-disciplinary actions conducted from 15 September 2025 until 21 September 2025 resulted in the arrest of 305 perpetrators.
All stakeholders adopted an integrated approach, combining intelligence led policing with visible patrols to curb crime across all five districts.
Initiatives included stop and search actions, vehicle check points, roadblocks and high visibility patrols. A total of 5 011 individuals and 2 825 vehicles were stopped and searched, including the searching of 93 premises.
Compliance inspections were conducted at numerous second-hand dealers and liquor premises as well as formal and informal businesses, farms and scrapyards. These inspections resulted in the closing of 23 unlicensed liquor premises.
Suspects were arrested for various crimes, including dealing in drugs, dealing in liquor, attempted murder, rape, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, burglary and other contact crimes and property related crimes.
During the execution of the operations, police confiscated a substantial amount of alcohol, drugs, dangerous weapons, and copper cables.
Authorities continue to curtail the possession of dangerous weapons, the abuse of substances, and excessive consumption of alcohol as they lead to the commission of serious and violent crimes.
Ongoing community engagements and awareness programmes focusing on women, children and vulnerable groups were held in conjunction with community policing structures and government departments to address prevalent crime trends, namely gender-based violence, youth and crime as well as alcohol and substance abuse.
The success of the operation was made possible by collective action from all involved parties. A safer society can only be realised through cooperative action between the police, stakeholders and the community.
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