They've lost their son, he's been spotted in Hillbrow taking drugs.
And that so we've come out here with a picture of him,
trying to get some information from the guys...
...to see if they've actually seen him here,
so we can actually pick him up and take him back.
Who do you think you are?
Where do you think you're going? Come!
Come here, open here, get out of your car.
What are you doing here?
What are you doing here, man?
When we approach him and we try to stop him,
this guy speeds off.
He had an attitude, he's definitely looking,
he could of dropped some guys off.
What the... are you doing here?
Lie down! Put your hands up!
Zaine's creeping in,
I'm coming in from the right hand side covering him from behind,
it's dark we cant see a thing, next thing from the window.
I was in the control room checking out things,
Dave gets a call for a suspicious vehicle in our neighbourhood.
What is it?
It's a small white car,
the windows are broken and he's just left the area.
Where?
Along Kingfisher and Xavier.
Come, let's go check on it.
So we decide to take the call.
Hey, my friend, what are you doing in this area?
Who you looking for here?
Who are you looking for? What are you doing here?
What are you talking about hey?
What address are you looking for?
What are you doing here?
I’ve got complaints that you are looking at houses here.
Who are you?
-Who are you? -Who are you?
Who are you? What are you doing in this area?
I am the lord of this area.
No, you're not, you don't belong here.
Don't get clever my friend, we'll arrest you quickly.
I'll come and I'll take your car, my friend.
-What? -Don't get clever here.
Hey, where do you think you're going?
Where do you think you're going? Come!
Come here, open here get out of your car.
What are you doing here?
When we approached him and we tried to stop him,
this guy speeds off.
Do you want to just catch this oak guy, he looks very suspicious,
he wouldn't gt out of his car, he had a big attitude.
He could be looking, he could of dropped some guys off.
We think straight away, man,
this guy has got something to hide, he's broken in somewhere,
he's got a TV in the back of his car,
he's done something, there's no reason for him to run.
We finally catch up to him...
...and we manage to pull him off the road...
...and we start to ask him questions and he gets very cocky with us.
Come, come, come, come, come.
How can I help you, guy? How can I help you?
Why you running? Where are you running too?
Because I'm in a hurry.
Time is money, time is money.
What are you talking about?
You're wasting my time.
What are you talking about?
How can I help you guys?
How can I help you?
He's very cocky, very loud, so now we are very inquisitive.
Why is he so defensive, why is he so cocky why is he so loud?
So now we want to search his car.
Just open here for me.
Do you have some parcels in here?
No, open your boot I want to see what's in here.
What are you doing in this area with this stuff?
What are these tools for my friend?
Cleaning...
...or this is a screw driver as you know what the job descriptions for it is...
What are you doing in this area?
I am supposed to be in this area, I am the lord of this area.
Okay, so what are you doing there?
Yes, I am working.
Working where? Which house?
No, I don't work in the house, I must be there!
I don't have to get permission to be there.
When people start giving me attitude,
it makes me feel like they're up to no good...
...because there's no reason to give people...
...that are in the position of authority, attitude.
We are contracted by the neighbourhood...
...to look after the neighbourhood.
there's no reason to disrespect us or be evasive.
Just because I've got the white chick there it's a problem?
A white chick?
-You've got a white chick? -Yes.
That's good for you.
I've got a white chick and that's a problem?
He said he was dating a lady that lives in the area,
obviously I didn't believe him at the time,
I thought he was just looking for a story to give him a reason to be there.
If you don't want my relationship with my chick...
...then why don't you remove her from there?
It's frustrating when you know that a person is up to no good...
...but you've got no evidence to pin on him,
so in the end you've got to just let him go.
You know, where he said he was and what he said he was doing,
it's still sketchy we spoke to the person he was visiting...
...and he was visiting that person...
...but if you visiting a person,
you should visit the person...
...then you should go back home to where you came from.
You shouldn't cruise around the area.
So, we'll be keeping an eye on him.
We were out in Hillbrow looking for a kid that's gone down the wrong path in life,
he's obviously become an addict...
...and he got himself lost in Hillbrow and we went there looking for him.
The mission was to find this kid,
get him out of there, get him back home safely,
so we can get him into rehab or a place of safety.
Often when we roll through the streets of Johannesburg.
We don't like to where big bullet proofs...
...and have our guns out and that kind of stuff...
...because, you know, if we come in with aggression...
sometimes we get met with aggression,
on these kind of reckies we are humble, we cruising the streets,
we speaking to the community,
we are trying to get Intel,
so we come in and we're friendly,
we ask them if there's any crime going on,
how we can help them and that's how we get information.
Hillbrow used to be a very popular area to live in about 30 years ago.
Now at this point in time its probably the dodgiest place in the whole world,
walking down the street,
there's just all kind of gangsters, criminals, it's dirty, dingy.
People are always high and drunk.
If you go past the buildings...
...and people are sitting outside on the step doing nothing.
This used to be a very upmarket apartment block...
...back in the '70s and '80s...
...and now it's turned into a slum land.
We first went to Ponte...
...which is a landmark in Johannesburg,
it's been known to have a lot of drug dealers...
...and it was probably a sure place...
...where we could find some people we could talk to...
...and we could try locate this kid.
We went down to the middle of the building,
its a cylindrical shape,
so you can go down to the bottom and look up at the sky.
The estate manager here said...
...what they've done here is they've welded the internal windows,
to keep the whole building clean.
It's totally dark and abandoned down there,
nothing happening in the middle of the building,
it's almost impossible to think that the building is inhabited.
Think this is a lot more functional...
...and a lot more cleaner than I thought.
I'm seeing a thriving community here lots of families...
...and I think all the gangsters have moved out,
so I think we're not going to find...
...what we're looking for here, so lets' move out.
We were blown away actually how they've actually cleaned it up,
there's a biometric finger print access system,
you can't get in or out of the building,
when you go into the apartments they are brand new.
Afterwards we decided to hit the streets...
...and go into Hillbrow itself...
...and just check out the local hangouts...
...and that and see if anybody has any information for us.
Have you seen this guy around here?
You haven't seen this guy?
Thanks, buddy.
Sorry, mama, have you seen this guy?
-You haven't seen this guy? -Thanks.
We walked around the streets of Hillbrow...
...and we were showing the photograph to the street vendors.
And some of the people actually recognised the kid,
they actually said he'd been there a while ago but he had since left.
Dave, do you know where Twist street is?
Yeah, you must turn right and then we are on Twist, yeah.
So left turn, left turn...
We were lead to an old abandoned church,
so we decided to go have a look inside.
While we were looking inside the abandoned church,
the stench was so bad...
...that Moolie started mock charging.
What we saw inside that church was very sad actually...
...and its totally uninhabitable.
It's impossible to live amongst the sewage and the stench inside there,
so we found it hard to believe that people would be doing drugs inside there...
...because it must be easier...
...to get a more comfortable place than that.
I don't think we are going to find this lightie in here.
Let's move into the park and go into other buildings.
So we go outside the church and we standing on the street corner...
...and we meet an elderly lady,
she starts chatting to us about where the drug dealers hang out and you know,
how Hillbrow has really gone down...
...and starts giving us some really great information.
Then she shocks all of us.
I was just shocked, I was blown away.
I didn't even think this place was fit for humans to stay inside,
it was a total health hazard...
...and yet here's this lady living inside this building,
this old abandoned building full of human excrement...
...and she just seems like it's another day for her, like she's at home.
So, we got a few leads nothing concrete...
...but it seems we are not going to find this kid in Hillbrow.
Got a call out to the petrol station literally down the road...
...we've been at this petrol station before,
we've staked it out before.
There's a call out for some guys doing remote jamming,
this particular petrol station has got a censor...
...and as soon as they use the remote jamming device the siren goes off...
...and alerts the people at the garage that some ones trying to jam remote.
When we rocked up to the garage,
we noticed a white Ballard...
...and when we approached them,
we also had cameras all on us.
They were pretty freaked out by the cameras and they rushed off again.
Those two oaks guys there,
when you put the camera on them,
the oaks that were filling up here, see that Honda Ballard here?
Yeah, when we put the camera on them they were very nervous.
You can definitely see these guys were the ones who were trying to remote jam,
they were up to no good,
it would of been nice if we could of caught them in the act...
...of actually grabbing a laptop or something but at least we prevented it.
The speaker out there when somebody's trying to jam vehicles,
when people park to go inside the shop...
...when the guys have got the jamming remotes,
that siren goes off and it makes everybody in the garage aware of the noise...
that somebody's actually here jamming,
so it actually scares the hell out of people...
...and the guys end up disappearing.
Jamming is a new thing happening in South Africa at the moment...
...it's basically a little blue remote that when you try lock your car,
they hold the button down...
...and it blocks your signal to lock your car,
so therefore your car is not locked,
so all the people think they've pushed the button to lock their car...
...but meantime their car is not locked...
...and the guys come through quickly open your boot steal your laptop...
...and they disappear and they're gone within five seconds.
...and it's rough, it's happening at all our shopping centers...
...and all our petrol stations constantly...
...but now with this petrol station,
putting this up it's a step forward...
...and I hope all shopping centres and petrol stations...
...can be proactive instead of reactive.
My clients were very happy...
...that we responded in such a short amount of time,
it would of been great if we got there a little bit later...
while they were in the act of actually stealing something.
It's quite difficult the car that was suspected for jamming,
it's quite tough we can't arrest them for anything...
...because the jamming device is a normal simple garage button remote,
so it's actually not a tool, there's no legal case against it,
so the guys can't get arrested for it...
...otherwise everyone could actually get arrested for having a garage remote,
so it's quite difficult for us at the end of the day.
JP, do you have the photo of the reg?
Let me put it on the police radio, so we can look out.
Zulu one come in.
We just got a call from Hawthorn Village,
some of the contractors are fighting each other there,
so it's getting quite violent,
please can you help me respond there.
Copy, copy on the way.
We responded to a call to one of our sites,
there's still a bit of building going on there,
it's a complex, all high profile houses.
On these sites, we have different building teams...
...and all these guys obviously have different pay grades...
...and they try to rub it...
...in the lower grade guys' faces sometimes...
...and a lot of these times the guys don't stand for it,
so they take matters into their own hands.
Where they?
When we arrived on the scene,
there was a bigger guy and a smaller guy...
and the bigger guy fancied himself as a bit of a rumbler.
When we arrived there,
he kind of just shut up and didn't do anything out of turn.
Yeah, he hit him with a fist.
2418.
-2418? -Yeah.
Yeah, this kind of stuff happens all the time,
there's normally a dispute between the construction workers...
...and two of them will have a go at each other,
it's our duty to get there to stop the fights so no one gets hurt.
Two construction workers had a bit of a misunderstanding,
so it ended up in a fist fight,
the one kid is quite bloodied up,
so now we are going to wait for the SAPS to come...
...and arrest one of them...
...and one of them is probably gonna get some medical treatment.
Did you search the...
Yeah, just watch out for the tough guy, he looks like he can run very fast.
No, he's in safe hands.
In situations such as this,
both parties get banned from the estate...
...irrespective of who caused the fight...
...or what the circumstances were,
we just set a president that says we don't take shit,
you cause trouble on the site and you take the law into your own hands,
you get banned and you need to go find a new job.
On the way to Tembisa,
yesterday we were looking for a lightie in Hillbrow,
his mother is one of our clients she stays in one of our estates,
she phoned us panicking her sons been off the rails...
...before he's taken drugs and that before,
so we searched Hillbrow...
...and one of the girls we spoke to yesterday,
she gave us a call today.
And said that mates of his,
for that guy is rolling with a couple heavies...
...probably the dealers he's been buying from,
and they said no he's gone off to Tembisa,
we contacted our informant in Tembisa...
that always helps us with operations.
He started doing a bit of homework speaking to the guys he knows...
...and, yeah, he gave us a call...
...and said he knows where he is, so we're on our way to Tembisa now.
It's not uncommon for theses drug dealers to have different apartments...
...that they operate out of,
they like to keep moving,
obviously their product,
so it doesn't stay in one area, so the police can't close them down.
We are going to try get him out in one piece,
I don't think it's going to be as easy as we think it's going to be...
...because these drug dealers don't like to let go of these lighties...
...because the lightie probably owes them about 10 grand worth of blast,
so let's see what happens.
Often when we do operations in Tembisa we've got an informant,
we've used him a number of times,
he's become a valuable part of the team,
he actually enjoys working with us,
we gave him a call...
...and said we were looking for this lightie...
...that's obviously on drugs...
and he's jolling with a certain crowd,
he's came back to us...
...and said he's done a bit of an investigation...
...and he's spoken to his guys,
they know where this kid is,
he's in a bad bad part of Tembisa,
so we geared up and went to fetch him.
This is where you find big time gangsters,
they live in complexes like this,
you'll watch as we roll through here how the oaks check us out.
I think we had literally only been on the ground for about two minutes...
...when bakkie loads of people rocked up.
The situations really getting volatile,
they don't really appreciate us being in here.
I kind of told them that we here to pick up a lightie that's on drugs,
we're not going to leave without him,
we don't care what happens,
they kind of saw that we weren't playing games,
we not there to cause trouble, we're not there to step on anyone's toes,
we're there to fetch our client...
...and get him out of that place and get him home.
This is more of volatile situation than being in the shacks.
That's what I just said to them, I said we're in the shit here.
This is the deep hood.
It's a much more volatile situation.
Let me just beep call and see where he is.
The troops have started to settle down here,
so we can get in here quickly, then lets get the beep out of here.
How you buddy? Where you?
Okay, yeah, we are waiting out front, bro.
Alright.
We're gonna make this quick.
I'm coming down I'll check you now.
The plan moving forward was pretty simple,
we are going to move through this complex as quick as possible...
...basically kick the door open,
threaten the guys that are in there...
...and get the lightie out and basically get out of there.
You know you can't really go in and scope...
...and see exactly what you want to do in these type of situations,
you have to move and as you move you make decisions.
You know to go get Intel for yourself out of these locations,
you know you kind of stick out like a sore thumb,
so when we do operations like this,
it's kind of we operate and we think on out feet...
and as we think on our feet, we make decisions.
What the... no let go!
Come on!
We're just here for the kid.
JP had our backs covered,
the two gentlemen rushed out of the apartment...
...to try and see if they could try grab their obviously their little victim...
...or their little drug mule back.
JP covered our backs...
...and basically told the guys if they make a move they're finished,
they could see he had that look in his eye, he wasn't... around.
Hey, fuck you, guys!
I'm not playing.
For fuck sake, don't come here and take our mule man.
Just relax, we're not here to...
Get the fuck out of here.
Moolie, move!
Move, Moolie, move!!
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go.
Run, run, run!
Fuck off! Leave me alone.
Yeah, we basically carried that lightie out of that complex...
...and threw him in the car and got him out of there.
Go,go,go.
Go, go, go.
Okay, I'll hook up with you later, bro.
Listen here, we've been looking in Hillbrow in Tembisa,
we've been searching the whole country for you because you want to do what?
Take drugs, your mother is worried about you and you piece of...
-Fuck my mother. -Shut up!
Listen to me, lightie,
you're lucky you're not my lightie because I'll fuck you up.
You're lucky we didn’t find you dead there.
You drug addict's fuck me off, you little pieces of...
You irritate me.
I've got a serious, serious problem against these lighties...
...that make bad decisions...
...and take drugs and continue to take drugs...
...and put their families through hell,
I've never wanted to slap someone so bad in my life.
That lightie needed... beaten out of him...
because, you know, the arrogance...
...and the I don't give a stuff attitude doesn't roll with me.
Those guys aren't gonna take it nicely,
so they've mobilized the troops by now,
so we've got to get out of this place very quickly.
Yeah, we don't want to be here when the sun goes down.
I was brought up in a disciplined home...
...where you respect your family, our father and our mother.
These lighties that make bad choices fine they make bad decisions...
...but the disrespect they have for their family is unacceptable,
they need to catch a serious wake up call...
...and pull their... together and stop putting their poor mothers through hell.
We try and have family lunches as often as we can on Sundays,
you know, we try go to Church on Sunday morning...
...and we try and have lunch after, its really a day for family and relaxing.
I think your daughter needs toilet paper.
She's saying, "Can someone please bring me toilet paper?"
Hello?
And it's quite common that we get called out...
...and we need to give back-up on this specific Sunday a call came out.
Okay, take response we're on our way.
Guys!
Guys, break in.
But its fine we'll be back.
Don't you have anyone else in the area that can go?
They came but we're going to go as well, we'll be back now, relax.
So, we jump up and kiss our families goodbye...
...Nd they kind of get all pissed off with us,
you know our wives give us...
...but they know that by making these arrests in the streets,
we're making a safer place every day for our own families.
Are you sure you guys have to go now, Zaine?
Yeah, babe, we'll roll quickly if there's something going on we'll sort it out.
We'll be back now I promise you we'll be back give us 20 minutes.
The caretaker had pushed his panic button,
our control room had made contact with him.
He said that there was a positive break-in in progress.
There were two suspects that had been spotted a white guy and a black guy,
they were loading stuff into a car of some sort,
they hadn't seen him yet,
so they were still unaware that a response was on the way.
Me and my brothers realised...
...that there was an opportunity to make an arrest...
we needed to give our guys assistance.
Now the reaction team are on their way there,
let's see who gets there first.
You know often when we have family lunches...
...or family dinners or even family breakfasts,
panic buttons go off call for help goes out...
...and, you know, we stand up and we leave our families,
we rush off to help other people in need...
...or we rush off to protect our clients valuables.
Sometimes it's a major disappointment for our families,
they worry about us, we jump up now,
we run into a situation and they start panicking,
we take the good with the bad I suppose.
Lucky for us we spend a lot of family quality time together.
When we arrived on scene,
the caretaker was at the gate waiting for us it looked like he had seen a ghost,
looked like he was actually shitting himself.
How is it, buddy? What happened here?
Yeah, there are two people inside,
in the office there, the one black guy and the one white one.
They broke in?
Yeah, they have broken in that side.
He then showed us the way,
we asked him to open one of the front doors for us so not to be seen,
we made our way through the office park,
room by room, block by block.
And eventually we got to a section of the office park...
...where we could see a torch shinning inside in the distance...
...and we obviously knew...
...that this is the place these guys were moving through...
...and stealing laptops TV's and computers and that kind of thing.
What the... are you doing here?
Lie down! Put your hands up.
-What you doing here my friend? -Nothing, nothing.
-Who are you with? -I'm not with anyone, I'm alone.
-Don't talk shit. -There's no one here. Just me.
-Who you with? -No one. It's just me, my man.
Listen, we know you've got a friend with you we spoke to someone...
...and they saw both of you just tell us where he is otherwise we're going to...
I'm alone, my man, I don't know. I don't know.
Listen to me, listen to me...
We can make it easy or we can make it hard for you.
There's, there's no one else, guys, it's just...
Okay, shut up!
Moolie, just hold him. Zaine, come with me.
We made an arrest on a suspect...
...that was trying to hide in one of the rooms,
Moolie marched him out to the vehicle,
I followed Moolie,
I was doing and inspection on the vehicle checking the license plate and the reg.
Where you loading the stuff into?
I'm not loading anything, my man.
What do you mean?
Don't talk shit.
Show me where you've come through.
Who you with?
Okay, fine it's just two of us. It's just two of us.
-Where's the other guy? -I don't know.
They must be false plates, these reg doesn't match the plates.
No, it's not a stolen car, I don't know whose car it is.
Did you just jump in and bring it here?
Yeah, it was my friends car.
It's not my car.
Moolie's got the suspect up against the fence,
we are asking him where his friend is and suddenly Zaine spots him.
Move, move,move!
What happened?
Zaine gets chase and tackles the suspect...
...but all that Zaine gets is a freshie...
...and he flies into the swimming pool,
I give chase after the suspect,
the suspect jumps over a wall, I jump over the wall after the suspect.
I think his ankles are broken.
I'm going to search you...
Have you got any weapons on you?
No!
Lie flat on your stomach.
Roll over, on your stomach put your hands behind your back.
Hands behind your back!
Here's the keys to their car.
The suspect underestimated the height of the wall,
so when he jumped over the wall he hurt himself,
I jumped over too...
...and was lucky enough to catch a suspect...
...who was already half unconscious lying down on the floor.
I'll keep an eye on the suspect,
make sure Moolie is okay with the other...
Very successful arrest,
both suspects are in the vehicle,
we're now waiting for the SAPS to come and take them off of our hands.
Zaine loses the suspect...
...but he's also found out he's got a wonderful talent,
he can do a majestic swan dive.
It's one of those things, I have to swallow my pride...
...and kind of say, well, I missed another one...
...but I definitely arrest more than I lose.
Hello, babe, we're on our way home, we're all safe,
got our suspects.
Listen, Trev, Zaine and JP are here already,
we've got to just see what our surroundings are.
We got a call from the client saying...
...that he's heard them break into his property.
Just make sure that you cock and locked.
You can check its flipping dark there's no full moon tonight.
Its dark you can see.
We've got a client that's got a huge holding...
...and he's got a beautiful house on there...
...but he's got a, basically, a cottage that he doesn't rent out...
...but he stores a lot of his stuff...
...and he's got jet ski's in there, he's got a lot of expensive equipment...
that he keeps in there...
that we've actually put a full alarm inside there to keep it safe.
No, Moolie this is a big piece of land, bro.
We were driving down to the bottom of the property,
this place has no lights so it is quite scary.
Different to responding to a complex or something...
...because there's all lights there and it's very well lighted up,
this place was pitch dark,
you couldn't see nothing we had our torches out,
it was scary I didn't want to go into that situation.
I just want to see what we are going to do here,
we can't sit and wait.
People can lose their lives waiting for backup, bro.
We responded to a burglary signal at this particular house...
...and it was coming from the shed,
the client left a note at the control room...
...that he would be out of town for a couple weeks...
...and we knew nobody should be in there.
Just be careful...
Zaine's creeping in,
I'm coming in from the right hand side, covering him in from behind.
It's dark, we can't see a thing.
Get down the car.