Police in the North West have mobilised the 72-hour activation plan to find the suspects behind the killing of a 36-year-old sergeant. <\/p>\n
Julia Makgareetsa, who was stationed in Marikana in the Bojanala Sub-District 2, was shot and killed when pursuing suspects wanted for committing serious and violent crimes in the area. <\/p>\n
Reports say the Visible Policing members were on Monday afternoon following up on information about the suspects, whom they found at their hideout in Rooikoppies, Marikana. <\/p>\n
When the suspects spotted the police, they fled on foot. The police got out of their vehicles and chased the suspects. <\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing a shootout which ensued between the suspects and the police, Sergeant Makgareetsa was allegedly struck by a bullet in the chest and succumbed to her injury, while a 30-year-old suspect was wounded and arrested. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect, who is currently under police guard in hospital, was found in possession of a loaded 9mm Norinco pistol,\u201d the South African Police Service said. <\/p>\n
The North West Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Sello Kwena, has conveyed his condolences to Makgareetsa\u2019s family, relatives and colleagues. <\/p>\n
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) is investigating and the arrested suspect is expected to appear in court soon. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in the North West have mobilised the 72-hour activation plan to find the suspects behind the killing of a 36-year-old sergeant. Julia Makgareetsa, who was stationed in Marikana in the Bojanala Sub-District 2, was shot and killed when pursuing suspects wanted for committing serious and violent crimes in the area. Reports say the Visible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-173901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}