A gang that included members of the police's Crime Intelligence Unit was busted while it was planning a new attack on the Gauteng suburbs it has been terrorising. The arrests were made after an informant alerted the police to a group of men who had aroused his suspicions, parked outside a home in Langlaagte, Johannesburg.Police found eight "plain-clothes officers" in three cars, with drugs and a large amount of cash.The police discovered that two of the men arrested were crime intelligence officers out on bail for theft and robbery.The other six, who were not police officers, were wanted for housebreakings in Pretoria, Johannesburg, and across the Reef.Police spokesman Brigadier Vish Naidoo said that the two policemen arrested were wanted in connection with several crimes, including a robbery in Cleveland, Johannesburg, in 2014.He said that one of the arrested policemen was a lieutenant-colonel who had resigned from the police following his first arrest, and the other was a serving officer absent without leave."The other [men] have been linked to house break-ins and robberies in Wonderboompoort and Sinoville, north of Pretoria, and in Norwood, Cleveland and Yeoville, in Johannesburg, in 2013 and 2014."He said the gang members typically conned people into allowing them into their home."Once inside they would plant drugs before arresting the homeowner and then stealing money from the owner, whom they would later release."Naidoo said that during the gang's two-year crime spree they had stolen over R650000.He said 270 police officers were currently on suspension in connection with various allegations of criminality, 185 without pay."More than 1400 police officers have been fired for various criminal and departmental reasons."A national disciplinary unit is being established to, among other things, overcome delays in dealing with departmental cases."Naidoo said the men would soon appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on charges of house robbery, impersonating police officers and theft...