TRANSITO, the truth behind the big-money robberies

160pp., illus, paperback, Pretoria, 2020

How cash-in-transit (CIT) robbers plan and execute their ambushes, collaborating with a network of accomplices that include police informers, insiders working for CIT companies, professional car thieves, cell phone technicians and suppliers of illegal firearms.

Hennie Lochner was a senior lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA. Now retired, he works as an independent researcher. For his PhD thesis, he interviewed convicted CIT robbers on their modus operandi.

Retired journalist Peet van Staden is the author of the Afrikaans thriller Krake.