South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB)

The SOCI component has four sections: South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) for drug trafficking and dismantling clandestine drug labs; Economic Protected Resources section investigating transnational import of metals, illegal mining, wildlife trafficking, and human trafficking linked to organised crime groups.

“The second section is the South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau, commonly known as SANEB, which deals with all national and transnational drug trafficking offences, detection and dismantling of all clandestine drug laboratories, and other drug-related crimes. In the third section there is the Economic Protected Resources section, which investigates offences relating to transnational importing of non-ferrous metals and tampering with essential infrastructure in organised, complex, and sophisticated cases, transnational importing and exporting of precious metals, diamonds, and chrome, illegal mining committed in an organised fashion, wildlife trafficking, and then human trafficking linked to organised criminal groups or committed in an organised fashion by land, sea, or air.”