NoJack Success Report: Stolen BMW X3 Recovered, Suspect Arrested in Brakpan

A BMW X3 was stolen from an elderly lady after a man befriended her, gave her something to make her sleep, and ransacked her home. NoJack was asked to help, and the team planned the recovery. There was no tracker in the car. The suspect was arrested in Brakpan during the week.

About NoJack

NoJack is a vehicle and asset tracking company with branches throughout South Africa.

NoJack tracks vehicles, trucks, trailers, boats, caravans, motorcycles, and any other valuable cargo.

NoJack currently has a 98% stolen vehicle recovery rate.

NoJack offers recovery services to its own clients as well as to many other companies and people who require a recovery response service.

NoJack is a registered member of PSIRA.

Our Response Capability

We share videos and clips mainly related to South African serious and violent crimes, and pursuits of stolen or hijacked vehicles by NoJack and other vehicle tracking agents. Even serious crimes including CIT robberies, home invasions, and other in-progress crimes are responded to as backup.

Our actions are in line with the South African Criminal Procedure Act, the PSIRA Act, the National Road Traffic Act, and other relevant regulations.

Arrests by Private Persons

Any private person (not a law enforcement official) in South Africa may arrest someone for “any collaborating, enticing to commit a crime” [2|3|5], such as those within the list of Schedule 1 offences as per the Criminal Procedure Act of 1977, Law 51 [2|3], and the Criminal Law Amendment of 2007, sections 3 and 4.

Schedule 1 offences include:

• Arson

• Fraud

• Forgery

• Treason

• Sedition

• Public violence

• Murder

• Culpable homicide

• Robbery

• Kidnapping

• Child stealing

• Sexual assault, compelled sexual assault, or compelled self-sexual assault as contemplated in sections 5, 6, or 7 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007, respectively.

Manner and Effect of Arrest

Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 — Arrest, Article 39

(1) An arrest shall be effected with or without a warrant and, unless the person to be arrested submits to custody, by actually touching his body or, if the circumstances so require, by forcibly confining his body.

(2) The person effecting an arrest shall, at the time of effecting the arrest or immediately after effecting the arrest, inform the arrested person of the cause of the arrest or, in the case of an arrest effected by virtue of a warrant, upon demand of the person arrested hand him a copy of the warrant.

(3) The effect of an arrest shall be that the person arrested shall be in lawful custody and that he shall be detained in custody until he is lawfully discharged or released from custody.

Emergency Lights on Vehicles (National Road Traffic Act)

National Road Traffic Regulations, 2000 — Regulation 176: Identification Lamps

(7) A vehicle—

(a) owned by a body or person registered as a security officer in terms of the Security Officers Act, 1987 (Act No. 92 of 1987); and

(b) driven by a security officer as defined in section 1 of the said Act in the course of rendering a security service, also defined in section 1 of the said Act,

…may be fitted with a white lens bar containing a lamp or lamps emitting an intermittently-flashing diffused white light in any direction, and containing a notice illuminated by a white light containing the word “security” and the name of the owner of the vehicle in black letters: Provided that the said lamp or lamps shall not be capable of emitting a rotating or strobe light.

Contact NoJack

24/7 Call Centre: 011 420 1866

Email: info@nojack.co.za

Website: www.nojack.co.za