/ 6 April 2000

POLICE NET 13000 IN FIVE DAYS

SOUTH African police have arrested more than 13000 suspected criminals in a five-day operation to clean up 124 crime hotspots, the national commissioner’s office said on Wednesday. Police have also seized more than 370 illegal guns and 550 stolen vehicles in the operation between March 28 and April 1. The operation is the first in a series planned over three years as part of the police force’s strategy to fight the country’s high crime rate.