Operation Neptune, maritime anti poaching South Africa

what was Operation Neptune?
Well in short it was a response to a problem, the communities of the Overberg identified that abalone poaching was a huge problem, not only a problem which tickled at the collective conservationist psyche but a doorway through which organized crime would grow, gangs would strengthen themselves and ordinary people would find out how close they would be to the preservation of a simple sea creature.
The SAPS and then Marine and Coastal Management stood up to that problem, police officers, mcm officials, soldiers, sailors and airmen, ordinary South Africans stood up firmly against a tide of poaching. Their story has never been told. This has become my labour of love, to tell that story, to bring to light how heroic they were and how much they brought with them.
My research is already well advanced but I always am looking for more, so please if you have photo's, video's, newspaper clippings please IM/ Inbox/ or e mail me
bryanmennnie@yahoo.co.uk

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• Policing
• abalone
• perlemoen
• Hermanus
• tactical
• poaching
• maritime
• south africa
• south african police