It quoted Afrika Khumalo, the crime intelligence chief commissioner in the country's Gauteng province, as saying that surveillance cameras, visual and tape recordings and undercover policemen were used to track down the suspects.

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Keeping track of the S Pen is simple now too because a visual and audible alarm appears if the user forgets to put the S Pen back inside the device.

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