{"id":4518,"date":"2011-10-04T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/stolen-guard%e2%80%99s-gps-tracking-device-leads-to-arrest-of-two-armed-robbery-suspects\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:28:56","slug":"stolen-guard%e2%80%99s-gps-tracking-device-leads-to-arrest-of-two-armed-robbery-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/stolen-guard%e2%80%99s-gps-tracking-device-leads-to-arrest-of-two-armed-robbery-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Guard\u2019s GPS Tracking Device Leads to Arrest of Two Armed Robbery Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police have arrested two more men believed to have been involved in the armed robbery at the Sappi Adamas Mill on Sunday morning (See:<\/strong> Shots Fired in Burman Road Armed Robbery<\/a><\/em>) after tracking a guard\u2019s GPS Locator to their home.<\/p>\n

Metro Security Services<\/a> Operations Director, Kaashief Niekerk, said the robbers had raided the guardhouse during the robbery on Sunday, and among the items stolen was a GPS locator, used by the guards on patrol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe issue our guards with these locators as a safety precaution, as well as a monitoring device, so that we can monitor them while they are doing their perimeter patrols,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Niekerk said when they realised that the GPS locator was missing, they checked their systems and found that the device was still on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were able to trace it to an exact address in Jali Street, Kwazakhele and immediately handed this information over to the police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Niekerk said police acted on the information and raided the house during the early hours of this morning where they recovered the stolen device and arrested two men.<\/p>\n

Niekerk said it was refreshing to see brazen criminals, who had openly taunted police during an exchange of gunfire on Sunday, caught through their own stupidity.<\/p>\n

Niekerk said the success was a clear example of how police and private security companies could work together to fight crime and praised a recent initiative launched between the Mount Road Police Cluster and a number of private security companies in the Port Elizabeth area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the South African Police Service\u2019s Mount Road Cluster, wherein we undertook to share information relating to criminal activity with the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a clear example of how such an arrangement has lead to the arrest of dangerous criminals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Kaashief<\/a><\/p>\n

Metro Security Services Operations Director, Kaashief Niekerk<\/p>\n

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Police have arrested two more men believed to have been involved in the armed robbery at the Sappi Adamas Mill on Sunday morning (See: Shots Fired in Burman Road Armed Robbery) after tracking a guard\u2019s GPS Locator to their home. Metro Security Services Operations Director, Kaashief Niekerk, said the robbers had raided the guardhouse during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-4518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"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\/4518","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}