Police Minister Bheki Cele has given an update on law enforcement operations during the lockdown.
The police minister says to date, 230,000 people have been arrested for breaking lockdown regulations and there's been a surge in the illegal trading of liquor and cigarettes along our borders.Police have completed two major drug busts in the past week alone
Provinces with the highest number of arrests for contravention of the lockdown regulations almost mirror the provincial COVID-19 infection rates Since December, firearms and ammunition were handed in their thousands, and then in April, only 385 were handed in.
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