Police officials had their hands full in Bellville last week where multiple high-profile crimes happened over a few days.
Last Thursday about 10 men, of whom three were dressed in police uniform, stormed a house in Blomtuin at around 10:00.
All were armed.
Inside the house were eight other men, who were forced to lie down, face to the ground and their hands were tied with cable tied while the premises was being searched.
“Seven cellphones and an amount of R43 500 was taken as well as a Nissan NP200,” says Capt Aubrey Morwenyane, spokesperson of the Bellville police station.
“When suspects left, one of the complainants ran to see which vehicle the suspects came with, he couldn’t get the registration numbers but saw that they left with a white City Golf and a Hyundai i20.”
A few hours before – at 21:45 on Wednesday – two police officers and a suspect were involved in a shooting incident at a restaurant in Bellville.
According to Morwenyane, the officers from Bellville South police office approached the suspect outside the Ethio Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant in Vlei Street restaurant after he was identified by a complainant.
Morwenyane doesn’t want to divulge what the suspect was being sought for except to say that he was “very dangerous” and “most wanted”.
“They took him outside at the back of the restaurant,” Morwenyane says.
“As they arrived outside the shooting incident occurred between the suspect and the police.”
The officers, a sergeant and constable, were shot – one in the leg and one in the waist. Both are in a stable condition.
“The suspect was shot in both legs and he was taken to hospital under police guard.”
No arrest has been made and the suspect is being investigated.
In a small ray of hope, police and metro officers recovered two South African flags and two police flags inside a shack when they searched the shacks along Tienie Meyer Bypass.
One suspect was arrested for possession of suspected state property.
Morwenyane himself, as well as Capt Henry Pienaar, were at the head of this operation.
