Sitole said, as in most cases in which the 72-hour activation plan had been mobilised, the plan had borne fruit.
He said the team was led by Crime Intelligence officials to the Johannesburg CBD where four suspects aged between 23 and 38 were arrested.
"This should serve as a warning to other potential criminals that, as police, we will not rest until we are sure that justice prevails.
"As a nation we, as law-abiding citizens, should rally together against such criminality which is infiltrating and disrupting our education system which, fundamentally, is essential for development of a sustainable grand economic strategy for South Africa," Sitole said.
The suspects will appear in Tsakane Magistrate's Court on Monday.