SAPS and SABRIC to fight bank-related crimes

Mbasa Gqokoma
06 March 2015

The South African Police Service together with the South African Banking Risk Information Centre have reaffirmed their committed in intensifying the fight against bank-related and cash-in-transit crimes.

Lieutenant General Solomon Makgale said both parties have committed to educating the public about bank-related and cybercrimes and increasing the capacity of the SAPS to administer cyber-related commercial crimes amongst other things.

Makgale said we cooperate and share information to make sure that we reduce criminality in the banking industry. We had very good discussions and very frank to look at what is it that is hindering us from achieving the kind of success that we want to as envisage in the memorandum of understanding

“We want to as well to ensure that we go out there and arrest the people that we identify” Mokgale added.