Deputy Chief Inspector Gerald Maseko

Joint operation on 8 February involving EMPD and JMPD truck hijacking task team was conducted concerning suspects defrauding public with fake stones on social media.

“On the 8th of February, we had a joint operation with Province and JMPD, as we always do. We tasked members of truck hijacking task team unit or task team to join other teams as per request from Deputy Chief of the province to attend with them since it was affecting our area and Johannesburg and those members who were selling fake stones on social media platform, public members are being defrauded or members of public are being defrauded.”

Deputy Chief Inspector Gerald Maseko from Gauteng Traffic deployed EMPD truck hijacking task team members for the operation in Johannesburg.

“We tasked members of truck hijacking task team to join the other teams as per the request of Deputy Chief Inspector Gerald Maseko, late who was working at province.”