The South African Police Service (SAPS) is to deploy an additional 104 unmarked high-performance vehicles on the country’s freeways as part of its latest strategy to combat the rise in cash-in-transit heists. This was disclosed in Parliament on Wednesday by Police Minister Bheki Cele during a multi-stakeholder meeting convened by the National Assembly’s police portfolio committee‚ which was called in response to the recent spike in heists, which have so far seen at least R114m stolen from cash transport security firms. At least 152 incidents have been reported so far this year, with cash-transporting firms projecting losses of at least R470m, should the current trend continue, by year-end. The revelation came in response to a range of questions on what the police were doing to tackle this crime. Cele said, among other things‚ they had recently been forced to urgently procure the new vehicles, which would be linked so they could respond simultaneously. "We’re also going to put high-p...
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