Over 14,000 suspects arrested and 369 unlicensed liquor outlets closed as part of Operation Shanela [SOUND]

# Police arrested 14-thousand-274 suspects for serious and other crimes during intensified Shanela operations conducted across the country last week. A further one-thousand-854 wanted suspects were apprehended. A total of 369 unlicensed liquor establishments were shut down, with KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 216 of the closures. Police spokesperson Amanda Van Wyk says during the operation 148 illegal firearms and one-thousand-706 rounds of ammunition were confiscated. She says the seizures were particularly significant given the link between alcohol outlets, illegal firearms and violent crime: