Klerksdorp Record, Orkney - SAPS are cleaning up criminals in Orkney.
It started early morning on February 23 with Operation Mop-Up and police officers, detectives, members of the CPF were mobilised to address the problem of drifters in the area. WO Elize van Schalkwyk said these vagrants are a big problem in town and wander from place to place, eventually committing crime.
“CPF members began monitoring these wanderers a while ago, identifying them, watching where they sleep and what they do. We also found that burglary and theft cases increased over the past weeks, with a possible link to the drifters,’’ she said.
Capt Brent Browning took command of the operation and demolished buildings, parks, abandoned houses and alleys were searched where these people sought shelter. At the end of the day, forty men between the age of 18 and 55 years old were interviewed and profiled. “Two of them were linked to three different cases of rape, housebreaking and theft,’’ Van Schalkwyk said.
