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Drugs cops: find them or lose jobs

TIME is closing in on the Nelspruit organised crime unit, and their station commander, under threat of being dismissed after confiscated drugs were stolen under their noses at the beginning of the month.

TIME is closing in on the Nelspruit organised crime unit, and their station commander, under threat of being dismissed after confiscated drugs were stolen under their noses at the beginning of the month.

Captain Leonard Hlathi said provisional commissioner Rex Machabi had given the police unit 30 days to recover the drugs or else they would be fired.

The drugs were worth more than R3,5million.

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