Within five hours of a policeman being killed in Khayelitsha, Constable Kwayo Louw apprehended two suspects. His swift work was recognised at the weekend when he received the Western Province SAPS Man of the Year award.
Warrant Officer Wendy Lee juggles life as a single mother with duties to address major social issues confronting the rural community of Herold, near George.
Members of a team dedicated to busting organised crime networks spent weeks away from their families safeguarding a R583-million haul of cocaine found on a fishing vessel off Saldanha Bay in 2021. This earned the team the Catch of the Year honour at the Western Cape SAPS Excellence Awards.
Expert sleuth Lieutenant-Colonel Adrian Pretorius cracked the double murder case of 18-year-old University of Western Cape theology student Jesse Hess and her grandfather Chris Lategan. He was named Western Cape detective of the year at the weekend.