This was a Toyota Landcruiser - cash in transit vehicle. Passenger was new to the job that’s why he kinda freezes. And that is also not an AR, not popular this side of the world as in the states.
@Martin not R5 private cannot use R5 or R5 that's full auto, illegal for citizens, only LM 4 or LM 5 semi-auto and it s was an AR, they are quite common in SA now....for info.
@@commandoscape2530 yes thats ar . Defently diffetent then R4 and R5 and even R6. I also checked now when passenger cocked rifle. Only ar guns cock like that.
The driver is Leo Prinsloo, ex South Africa Police Task Force member, the Police Special Forces wing. Poor guy next to him was on his second day on the job as a security guard. Leo said the other guy did really well, didn't panic, did what was asked of him.
Personally I think the assistant was annoyingly a sitting duck, your life is at stake and you can't even think of calling your office to highlight that you are under attack.
As the meme goes "in South Africa you don't call 911,you call Robbie and Josh". But on a serious note, phoning the police in a life and death situation is utterly pointless, you are better off having the morgue on speed dial.
its no use even phoning cops in South Africa, they don't answer the telephone,the 112 emergency number hasnt been working for years==due to certain reasons, that co driver is in on it,hes not responding for a reason,when i saw this video on twitter long ago i watched a few times, thats why i always tell all do not visit the country
Just some inside knowledge. I worked for this company for several years. The control room is constantly monitoring the cash in transit vehicles. The alarm is sounded at the first detections of anomalous activity such as harsh acceleration or braking, so the response team were aware of and responding to the situation before the driver instructed that the team be called. The control room also has a live video feed of all cameras on the vehicle. Listen to what he says, he tells his co-driver to call the guys and ask them where they are. He knows they are already responding and on their way.
@@eisbeinGermany it's fine if you avoid the hotspots and 'risky' activities to begin with. That mostly means having some situational awareness and cutting out most urban exploration or at the very least doing it at the safest times of day and keeping outward displays of wealth to a minimum. It sucks to put that on a tourist but you'll be (most likely) okay if you do that. Reputable package tours cut out most of that as the tour handles most of the due diligence and planning for you. South African tourism is still on a rebound to pre-covid numbers so you might actually get an amazing value out of a trip right now.
@@ettcha but that is the problem 😃,to avoid dangerous area, which is where, only place is once landing 🛬 at Jan Smuts airport to stay in hotel 🛍️🏨 or in a house 🏠 and go nowhere, to think how safe SA was before 1994
@@eisbeinGermany Where I live in SA, I don't even lock my doors, I leave my car keys in the ignition all the time. The only thing that happend once, was an antelope jump though my window. The country is vast and mostly empty. I would be here long after the atomic wars are over.
Leo became a local legend overnight here in South Africa. Cash-in-transit heists are very common here. These guys do not play and have no respect for innocent lives. Always armed with high caliber automatic rifles.
Mostly AK 47 from ANC cadres or stolen police or military weapons. No one get fired for loosing their service weapons. No accountability. ANC Government is trying hard to disarm it citizens.
I get that you "would hire him as a driver", but he is actually the guy training the guys that drive and now and again he drives himself. He is elite in every sense of the word, even though the video you watched only show some angles and not everything of that specific incident so it is difficult to understand what really happened there. Most security people in the US don't get to experience the level of risk that they go through in SA on a daily basis.
Driver is Leo Prinsloo. He is a former South African Police Special Task Force member. The other guy was on his second/third day of working. They were driving the support vehicle, the white pickup with the canopy that they returned to was transporting the goods. The vehicle they are in is a modified Toyota Landcruiser 79 Series. Both made it out alive and became instant sensations in SA, mainly because of some of Leo's "choice" words.
@@JasonHansonSpyBriefing Yeah ex-police special unit, very much trained as a top-tier military unit. He's been hailed as hero here. We call these crimes "Cash in transit heists" - Very prevalent! We also have 72 murders a day (Population 58Mil - You can do the comparative stats). I think you're hard as nails - but do take it easier...maybe a 11hr day. Don't want your abs and mesentery wall tearing bud. Take care, Nick - SA Ex 1 SA Inf Battalion.
I’m South African, the guys is an ex special forces police officer (reaction unit) which is the most highly trained police in SA and his name is Leon Prinsloo and he was Transporting cell phones. He actually owns the company. He’s a professional and trains people for these situations and does firearm training and proficiency. He’s a hero and a legend here.
The driver trained me in one of his courses. The robbers are actually lucky he was not in a position to shoot back as they would of NOT survived the fight against him. He would of torn them apart.
@@dreammaker9642 He actually says in the video (at 4:21) in Afrikaans "Kom, jou kont!" which translates to "Come at me, you c*nt!". There were many Chuck Norris-like memes and jokes made about Leo after the video went viral.
The robbers had jamming equipment so no calls could be made. The vehicle tracking device was also jammed. They were driving a Toyota Land Cruiser. The robbers were using AK47s which are common street weapons in South Africa. They were trying to call other company vehicles in the area to warn them to be extra vigilant. Cash in transit robberies are very common in SA.
Not only did Leo take evasive action, he stepped it up and took the fight to the other vehicles, nothing deters criminals more than an aggressive reaction. After the initial contact Leo went after them.
My main commentary would be that guys in the States cannot really comment on something like this happens in South Africa. The guys here can teach you guys a lot of things. They are world class.
I'm pretty sure we in the US think he's a badass too. You can learn from anyone, your country doesn't have a monopoly on your brain. I still commented.
The driver said in an interview that the attackers were experienced as well. While he is a good shooter, he would have been in big trouble in a gun battle against several of them. This wasn't a Hollywood movie.
Jason I saw this video a few years ago. I don't know if your video has been censored. From what I remember the attack was for much longer and the driver did a fantastic job. His shotgun did ok but the driver was as good as anyone could be. No freezing, straight into action. God bless all good people. God strike down the evil.
@@coopz6752 Yes. That must have been the video I saw as well as there was time after the driver left the vehicle with weapon at shoulder ready to go into action.
Some background info: - Driver is ex South African special task force (Kinda like Swat) - Passenger is on his first day on the job. poor guy - Vehicle is a Toyota Landcruiser that has been modified. - Nobody got hurt apart from probably some underwear
Been hijacked in South Africa , chased 11 times, someone shot at my spouse,armed robbery,multiple house robberies on family,didnt bother to call the cops they tend to usually arrest the victims there. Fair amount of stuff I’ve forgotten about.
I can't even imagine living in ZA. This is the big benefit of living in Central/South Texas. Our close proximity to Mexico keeps all of this sort of thing well to the East of us. They cant compete with the work ethic of our latin brothers, so they just stay put in Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi.
This man used to be a South African Police Officer, now doing cash-in-transit driving since his skin color does not easily allow for his employment in any government position. He was let go and now does what is possibly one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. They were not calling the police. They are calling the office. If they called the police, and IF someone bothered to answer, no one would come. They were probably being chased by off-duty policemen, intent on robbing the cash-in-transit van.
Why lie about the skin colour thing. He’s in private security because that’s where the money is. The police make nothing and are for the most part, useless. I was in Port Elizabeth the other day and all the police officers I saw were wyt.
The driver is Leo Prinsloo, ex-South Africa Police Task Force member, the Police Special Forces wing. Poor guy next to him was on his second day on the job as a security guard. They were accompanying a cash transit vehicle, driving an armoured 4x4 Landcruiser if I remember.
I remember this story.... I stand to be corrected, it was the 1 day on the job for the other guy and the security company thanked him for keeping cool and not getting in the way.
That particular video clip is now legendary in South Africa, those fellows overpowered the would be robbers and made thier delivery. If you notice there was a third guy who called for help and the reinforcements attacked the bad guys from the back taking them TOTALLY by surprise 😅
Nobody mentions how good the robbers' aim is. They got direct hits on the driver's window from a moving car. One hit the passenger window from a standing position as they drove past.
I watched an interview with Leo Prinsloo a couple days after, he pointed out that very fact. He said without doubt they (the robbers) were military trained, and it definitely wasn't their 1st rodeo.
@@robertcrosbie9674 When they came for you and there's something you have that they really want, they will be trained...not some meth head trying to steal your plasma tv.
We have so much corruption here that it's common for police and military personnel to be involved. We have such open borders that we have no clue who crosses into the country, I met a Painter who was Ex Zimbabwe light infantry for 12 years, now in SA trying to make ends meet
Firstly, we do NOT have 911 in South Africa. They aren’t calling our useless cops; they are calling their colleagues to assist them and tell them what’s going on.
South Africa now probably has one of the biggest private police forces in the world. The security companies do most of the heavy lifting here and when the police finally rock up, they do the cleaning up and paperwork for what has transpired. Somehow it actually makes for a sociaty that shields middle income minorities, that has the money to pay for these security services such as armed response at our homes. Generally these private companies have better reputations than the police in many countries, because their income is dependent on their public image. Things are not as hectic in the Eastern Cape but here in Port Elizabeth there are also no-go areas.
This was the best video ever...we don't have 911 as you do..we do have a number to call thou....every one was proud of this guy...he was so good at driving too...he got that guys...I'm from South Africa...and so very proud of him❤❤❤
"Call Robby....Call Josh"! Makes you wonder what kind of bad asses Robby and Josh are if they are Leo's first call. Congrats to Leo for a job well done and I hope the robbers end up in a god forsaken South African jail forever.
Dude that is the misconception ... Robbie and Josh are the drivers in the courier van he is escorting when you listen to his instructions he tells the passenger to find out if they are OK as their vehicle is stranded on the side of the road and vulnerable... In the video you can clearly see them in the van on the side of the road when he fist turn back to check up on them and then takes on fire and uses his van to ram one of the shooters on foot and the one car they used thats how he busted his engine and where the video ends... Anyways this is old but stuff like this almost happen daily and our jails aren't god forsaken either pretty much on par with the best in the US.
Jason, these guys are still alive. Leo is ex South African Special Task Force and still does all our training for the company - K9 Law Enforcement - South Africa
Jason in South Africa there is no 911 service like you have in America. Our emergency services would not even engage the criminals. its absolutely terrible how little is done for civilian safety in our country.
@@JasonHansonSpyBriefing the 112 emergency number has been down for years now already,99,99 % of the cops are criminals, some cop stations dont even answer phone or dont even have wall telephones anymore due to the copper cable theft, some stations never come out, thats why i tell all to stay far away from the country,u are even robbed at the airport, people break open suitcases or the bagagge handelers infrom the syndicates outside the airport if u have valuable items in your suitcase and u get attacked when riding back home or to hotel
Theres another part of the video that shows several bad guys exiting a vehicle to prepare to shoot at the camera vehicle but the camera vehicle drivers swerves across a couple of lanes and heads directly towards the bad guys which forces them to go on the defensive instead of offensive. A brilliant move by the camera vehicles driver.
As a South African, I have never seen this clip until now, but well done to Leo Prinsloo. My dad was ex South African special forces, and Leo acted the exact same way my dad would have. Later on, he joined the blue light brigade before leaving the service
Prinsloo is definitely a badass. He hung two U turns, checked on the other truck, tried to run over/wreck the bad guys, then got out with his rifle to finish it off if they wanted to keep it going.
Jason. This was only half if the video posted last year. There was more video footage. He had to fight a group of cars chasing him around a parking lot etc. Great team who remained calm during this ordeal. They earned their pay.
Good methods and tactics, you never stop for anything like this in South Africa as these people will kill you regardless of what you say or do, better to evade or go on the attack if you have to. This chap was correct and he saved his life and his co-worker. People forget just how dangerous South Africa is, likewise how well armed the criminals are. Even if you have firearms training or military experience having your car or home attacked in South Africa is frightening, as the sheer violence and numbers taking part is often a shock for most of us from Europe or USA.
BETTER YOU SAY SOME PLACES IN SOUTH AFRICA ARE DANGEROUS. DONT SAY PEOPLE FORGET HOW DANGEROUS IS SOUTH AFRICA. THAT SENTENCE IS MISLEADING. EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD THERE ARE SOME DANGEROUS PLACES.
Some part are not the entire South Africa you are exaggerating now. Yes Crime is crazy in some part of the country as its in the world ..but to your statement is dangerous on its own ... US is high in crime itself
@@thendarasworld7692 most people are intelligent enough to work that out, my apologies for not writing a thesis within the comments especially to please you.
In South Africa the last people you call is the police as they are probably the attackers - that guy knew exactly what he was doing and could have my back anytime
I have worked with south africans in the uk. They told me, never stop at traffic lights especially at night. As you may be jacked robbed or murdered. Nice people though. They were from durban, and johannesburg.
I am from South Africa - we don't have a functional 911 service! You have to save yourself. You will be lucky if the police turns up days later to take a statement!
The driver was a member of the SAPS special task force. If you want to know about them, there is only one book about the special task force, written by Captain Shane Willard. There are several interviews with him about the book on RU-vid.
That driver had good situational awareness….he was watching his “6” with both rear view mirrors long before the shots. Makes you wish for an external mount m249 or something similar so you don’t have to dismount to fight back….
I am south african and ive seen videos of our police force, they fall over from shooti g shotguns, have plastic riot shields and are so drunk they run over pedestrians.
@@JasonHansonSpyBriefing It's all good, as other commenter say we get private security companies. I lived here my entire life and it's not that bad, other than corruption, loadshedding, extreme poverty and murder.
Mr Leo and crew was the APU for a transit vehicle, the hi Jackers were using signal jammers so the crew can not call for backup! Using his vehicle to deter the criminals and when the vehicle got disabled he sprang to action. some suspects were arrested. well done Mr Leo Acting With a cool mind and doing his job like a boss!! Legend. Are you looking for skilled employees?
The driver is like former special forces or something to that effect. It was like the other guy’s first day. There’s a bunch of video breakdowns on this one.
Jason, William from South Africa. Just to let you know the passenger was new and it was his first day. Yes driver did well, they usually don't, you should have a look at some other hiest vids from SA.
I hope you feel better soon. I just had an umbilical hernia fixed in January. From what I remember the driver does a lot of security training as an instructor. The copilot had his training day since it was his first day on the job. Be careful with the colorful language from the driver so you want get demonetized.
The vehicle Leo Prinsloo drove was a Toyota Land Cruiser 79 series double cab. They entered Pretoria from the east on the near the N4/N1 intersection almost exactly two years ago. I know because I was in the traffic jam that followed this shootout. Leo got stuck over those white concrete balls after trying to apprehend the suspect(s). He wasn't trying to flee...SA version of Chuck Norris😂
In South Africa we call this a “cash in transit heist”. Very common. When I see the Brinks truck pull up in the open air mall to get the ATM sorted out, there is always one pulling security with the long gun while the other is heads down messing with the machine. I am always looking to see if they were tailed in by a vehicle , especially a pick up with a few guys in the back, or if there will be a take down of opportunity. This is why I always know where I am going to shelter or open distance to the moment I see that cash truck arrive. As Jason said. Your plan to get off the X has to be pre visualised w contingencies. When its on, its too late to figure out and play catch up. Cheers.
Same here, we see a CIT truck, my daughter's (8 and 11) immediately start checking for bulletproof cover and my or my wife's firearm comes out the holster (depending on who's driving). Till we've driven far enough away and behind cover where we feel comfortable. It used to be stressful but it's become a part of life and now it's less stressful since we are always just a tad bit more prepared and that takes away alot of stress.
(…keeping your head together is central and then anybody freezing is a gonner…This ZA guy IS a ‘STUD’ ! And both of them remained calm - absolutely critical. Great going and positive, leading commentary)
We have a family friend, he left South Africa but his adult son stayed. He visited his son last year, on his return he described the life his son and his family live. True, his son makes huge amounts of money, but, his son employs 6 security guards, his house is surrounded by a 12 foot wall topped by razor wife, every adult carry’s a firearm, there are areas they cannot go, even for work (which means essential services are cut to those areas more often because the service personnel won’t go there).
If his son is staying in a town or city, he's taking poetic license. I live here, have lived here all my life. It is illegal to build 12' walls around your property. The limit is 2m, around 6 foot.
@@Kamaria0045 Boet i have seen 12 foot walls in Kwathema township. You know how I know? I had to go and recover my car from behind that wall after a hijacking in 2005. So ja, 12 foot walls do exist.
As a South African this is a two to three team plan from the criminals. Two teams ride ahead stand in the road, 1 to shoot the driver from the front. 2. while a car shoots from the side expecting you to stop so the team ahead 3. can execute you.
Actually, South Africa is less dangerous than the USA. Of course we live in gated communities and erect high perimeter walls around our properties, but that doesn't mean that we always do it to deter burglars from breaking into our houses. There isn't much you can do anyway to stop criminals from getting you if they really want you in SA. An estimated 10,000 Americans travel to South Africa every year, while the proportion of European visitors is ten times higher. A foreigner experiencing an incident like this is uncommon unless they are engaged in some dubious business that involves large sums of money, in which case they will become a target of criminals.
If I heard the report correctly they were transporting cell phones. Crime in SA so bad....Thieves are willing to kill to steal phones. I think its now in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the world. These guys are all hero's in my book!!
2nd or 3rd vid I've seen you in the Penn State T...I back you up on that one as well...loved PSU football since 1982 !! Guys in the vid had their stuff together that day - did NOT panic and kept their heads in the game - nice to see and thanks for sharing this one !!
This reminds me of an incident in 2017, our King's second wife was coming from officially opening a new hospital in the Toga district and on her way back from the event, 6 cars began to tail her out of nowhere and they began to open fire. The criminals had AK-47s and they wanted her gone for sure. Now on the other hand, she moved light, she only had a pilot car, her car [2008 Armoured Benz S class] in the middle and the rear car. The pilot and rear cars were armoured Toyota land cruisers. Thank God the assault was not successful but the way the cars were damaged is beyond me. No one couldn't survive that assault even with armour, but somehow they did. In the months that followed the Head of the Royal Guard was fired, 7/8 criminals were caught and executed as that is classified under treason and the last one was caught in 2020 and shot on sight, caught by bounty hunters in Mozambique. Since 2018, the intelligence also takes part in the protection of the royals and government officials. Actually, every security sector from the police, military and the intelligence offer protection to delegates. Africa is becoming wild!
Leo prinsloo was an operator in the special task force. This is an elite military style police unit. There is a 3 part documentary film on RU-vid that shows some of their shenanigans.
Cash in Transit van. Yes, armoured, bulletproof windows, until the van van stops and they put explosives against the outside. They even bring rakes with nowadays, to rake up the cash spread around Leo Prinsloo is a true hero
Got robbed at gun point snd the criminals hanged around. Called the cops, explaining theyre still here. Had to wait two hours foe them to arrive,, quite lucky they answered at all.
From what I seen in other videos this video was the armed escourt for a truck that was carrying valuables. What the heist robbers do is first take out the armed escourt aswell as the truck they want to rob. If you see in the video there is a white truck standing still on the side of the highway and Leo even drives past the truck he is trying to gaurd
Just for the record, the SA Police Service have "terminated with extreme prejudice" 11 cash in transit robbers and 5 drug dealers/hitmen in the last week or so. Hot gilding metal covered lead is all they understand. When I first saw the video I thought that the AR with adjustable but non-folding stock was rather unwieldy in the cab. I have a VZ58V (airborne, folding stock) which would be easier to manipulate. And I think I would rather have a 7,62x39 than a 5,56 in those circumstances!
Both guys survived, too often such encounters end in fatalities for the CIT guys.....there has been a spike in recent years for CIT heists due to ineffective policing and poor crime intelligence from our law enforcement agencies
They were driving the support/escort truck, the truck with the valuables that was robbed was the car they drove back to check on. He asked the driver to phone Robbie to see where they were - might have been the driver of the valuables car, seeing as they lost them during the initial shoot out. The passenger tried to call them but the network was jammed due to the criminals using network jamming devices, so they could not call police/backup. The driver eventually knocked one of the criminal cars into the sidewalk but had his own car get stuck which is why he exited the car as it was now stuck. The driver and passenger survived.
Hi , From South Africa. That driver is accomplished ex-member of the National Police Taskteam , which is a seriously welltrained and experienced organisation, given all the violent crime we have here. He also has a firearm training business , thus not your average diver. The vehicle is a Toyota Landcruiser , armoured.
How do you think the driver did? What about the passenger? I read somewhere that many people believe the passenger set it up, but I'm not sure about that.
I think the passenger froze. If he was in on the attack he would have shot the driver. I've seen how unperturbed an "insider" can be - I couldn't believe how cool he could be after killing a colleague for money from one of the bank money boxes. Only later did we find that he was complicit.
The driver was a former special task force officer with the South African police. These hijackers are amateurs. Most have armor piercing rounds and use RDX, Nitroglycerin, Gelignite or TNT to breach.
Just to add some info, he said to call Robbie and Josh some of his colleagues. We dont have a 911 service in South Africa and if you phone the police service it will take then hours to pitch up.
South Africa is not only the carjacking capital of the world, but also the the CIT (Cash-In-Transit) capital of the world. The driver was an absolute beast. He actually took the fight to the criminals. What you may not have picked up, is that he actually went with his truck for the one car that tried to block his way. The armed robber had to jump out of the way to not get run over. If you listen closely - at some point he says something in his mothertongue (Afrikaans) - which translates to "Come you c*nt". South Africa unfortunately doesn't have 911 - they have something similar - 10111, but it is utterly and completely useless. hardly ever gets answered and the people manning it is pretty useless. The people he asked his colleague to phone, would be supervisors at his company's office. The private armed security companies typically are responding much much quicker than the police.
It is not trained police officers that man the 10111 call centre, by civilian personnel. The only police officer in the call centre is the person in charge.
There is a huge misconception on the internet that they phoned for help.... They were the escort vehicle for a courier van full of Cellphones... The people he told the passenger to phone was the driver of the courier vehicle to find out if they were OK... the first time he went back was the van standing on the side of the road the courier van.. he went back as the bad guys were there in a better video you can see he uses his van to almost ram into one of the shooters standing on the side of the road.
@@JasonHansonSpyBriefing I do love your break down of the events.. This is just a sad reality for cash in transit and even other good drivers face daily on the roads and it almost never makes the news as its such a regular thing, its like we have become almost desensitized to it and accepted as a regular thing. The main reason this video blew up as it was the first time it was actual in cab and dash footage and from multiple camera's... Leon is now still a bit of a celebrity and from time to time he has a cameo in a tv commercial or two latest one i saw ironically was for a local courier company giving them tactical training on how to deliver packages.
Soldiers learn to power through ambushes. This was a standard tactic during the Border War, get out of the kill zone and go for the enemy immediately. Put pressure on those ambushing you to take away their advantages. Koevoet was especially good at this tactic, when a Kasspir APC you have attacked turns towards you at high speed, panic ensues.
