The two sergeants and four constables, aged between 31 and 42, were arrested at the Maitland Flying Squad on Tuesday morning and are due to appear in court on Thursday.
Six police officers have been arrested in Cape Town, while the arrest of a seventh suspect is iminent, on charges of corruption.
‘They are accused of corrupt activities where boxes of abalone were seized from suspects on a number of occasions without making any arrests or handing in the abalone as exhibits,’ Traut explained. ‘They are also accused of harbouring a corrupt relationship with persons on the wrong side of the law by escorting drugs with a police vehicle.’
Law enforcement have been clamping down on the illegal abalone trade and have seen several arrests lead to convictions in recent months. This came after the Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation team, Crime Intelligence, as well as officials from the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs, arrested the suspects in Milnerton during a search and seizure operation where abalone worth R4.5 million was discovered in January.
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