The stock theft unit makes the space very small for those who are stealing the livestock from the Northern Cape farmers.

Since the launch of the Operation Meat Master, the farmers can now farm peacefully, without being terrorised by the livestock criminals.

The Meat Master Operation is an on-going crime prevention operation; the police will not stop to squeeze the world of the livestock criminals to zero.

The focus of the Meat Master Operation is to address the stock theft within the Northern Cape Province. The operation Meat Master ran in the area of De Aar for three weeks.

On Sunday, 30 September 2012, the operation was terminated. The operation has yielded positive results.

“Eight suspects were arrested on Sunday evening, after several transactions were made with the suspects. The police confiscated 24 sheep, which were stolen from three farmers in the area of De Aar, since the 10th   to 30th of September. The market value of the livestock confiscated is

R 61500″ police said .

All eight suspects appeared before De Aar Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday on charges of stock theft.

The police handed over all twenty four sheep to their rightful owners, who are farmers from the De Aar area.

During the identification of the sheep it was very easy to identify these sheep, because they were correctly branded and tattooed.

The farmers are encouraged to continue counting their livestock every day, because this will assist them to know when their livestock was stolen or missing from the farm.