Search for Joslin Smith continues

Picture courtesy (SAPS)- SAPS and South African Navy joint search in an effort to find a young missing six-year-old Joslin Smith.

Sibusiso Ndlovu

Western Cape- The South African Police Service (SAPS) and South African Navy joint search in an effort to find a young missing six-year-old Joslin Smith, in Saldanha with an identified area in Diazville that was subdivided into zones as part of the coordination of the search.

According to SAPS press release, the contingent from the local South African Navy joining the search and another large group from the City of Cape Town also deployed from Monday to the area. The statement stated that the Saldanha Bay municipality’s firefighters are also playing a pivotal role applying their expertise in the search.

SAPS is also deploying all it’s resources at it’s disposal in the search of young Joslin, more specialised dogs from the K9 unit are set to scour the identified area. Detectives from the SAPS provincial office in Cape Town have since descended on the West Coast town to support the local investigators.

The efforts from all the role players are enhanced by drones from the SAPS and the City of Cape Town. Meanwhile scores of neighbourhood watch members, community-based organisations and local residents have also been working around the clock in the quest to find Joslin.

Items found during a search over the weekend have been sent to the Plattekloof forensic laboratory for analysis as part of the investigation.

The SAPS plea with members of the public to refrain from spreading false information on social media and desist from recording the searches as this may adversely impact the investigation. “The primary focus of the coordinated efforts should be to find Joslin or what happened to her, ” concluded SAPS.