The police are making progress in combating economic crimes with more than 7,000 people arrested from June last year to end-June this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Thursday.
The crimes involved were damage to critical infrastructure (4,000 arrests), extortion in the construction sector (70) and illegal mining (3,000). Significant quantities of copper cable and rail tracks and other metals had been confiscated. ..
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