A group Johannesburg metro police and South African Police Service officers were receiving specialised training from the United States’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
The course on detecting and preventing money laundering forms part of a continuing skills transfer from the US law enforcement authorities to South Africa, which began in 2001.
Johannesburg metro police chief Chris Ngcobo said money laundering and credit-card scams were a relatively new phenomenon in the country. Money was being ”cleaned” in South Africa and credit-card scams tended to target foreigners, which was an embarrassment to the country.
”We need to learn from the FBI, who are the best in the world,” he said. — Sapa