ADT Security arrests 5 members of Housebreaking gang in Upper Claremont Five men were arrested and charged with housebreaking and theft after an impromptu operation by ADT Armed Response Officers lead to their capture in Claremont on Wednesday, 19 October 2011.
ADT Armed Response Officer Jan Matli was called out to an alarm activation in Riviera Road at 13:00pm yesterday where he found two male suspects on the premises, allegedly with stolen items in their possession. After Officer Matli's back up, ADT Officers Peter Ngoetjana and Victor Dhludhlu, Claude Maree and supervisor Denzil Witbooi arrived, the Claremont South African Police Service was notified of the situation and the two men were apprehended. As they waited, one of the suspect's cell phones rang and he admitted to the Officers that it was his "boss" calling. Officer Dhludhlu instructed him not to admit that they had been arrested. The boss wanted to know why there were ADT patrol cars on the scene but the suspect told him that they were in hiding with the goods and were waiting for ADT to leave before coming out. While some of the ADT Officers pretended to leave the scene, all of them in fact remained with the suspects who informed them that the second call from their boss instructed them to hide the goods and meet him and three accomplices at a petrol station in Main Road, Claremont where they would be waiting in a white Fiat Uno. Officers Dhludhlu took the suspect's cell phone and drove to the petrol station followed by Officer Maree where they saw the vehicle, with its occupants, waiting in the forecourt. "The suspects became uneasy and tried to flee the scene but we blocked their exit with our patrol cars," Officer Dhludhlu explains. The men were instructed to get out of the vehicle and were apprehended immediately. Claremont SAPS arrived at the station at this time and Officer Dhludhlu confirmed the link between the five men when he pressed the redial button on the cell phone he had taken from the suspect in Riviera Road, and the phone rang in the pocket of one of the suspects they had just apprehended. The stolen goods were recovered and the five men were arrested and taken to Claremont Police station. "The Officers' decisive action deserves praise and is a great example of how fast response times, quick thinking and effective teamwork between ADT and the South African Police Services can be," says Rob Dale, Managing Director of ADT Security Western Cape. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en.
