THE South African Police Service is conducting hot-pursuit operations into Mozambique to catch and bring to book suspected rhino poachers.National police commissioner Riah Phiyega told a press briefing on Tuesday that "these actions are happening every day".The police were pursuing suspects from the Kruger National Park across the border into Mozambique."Yes, we are doing that (sic) hot pursuits. We have put in place an agreement with Mozambique that we can do this."The generally accepted definition of a police hot-pursuit operation is when they immediately give chase to a suspect in a crim e without a warrant or official permission.The issue of cross-border hot pursuits was a sore point during the apartheid era as special police units would often cross into a neighbouring country without permission to apprehend or even kill suspects.Gen Phiyega’s admission is the first known during usage of this police tactic since 1991.But she stressed that the hot pursuits were conducted with the...
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