ABSTRACT: The Career of Detective Head Constable (Detective Warrant Officer) WJ Herbst a founder member of the Security Branch of the 1950’s and prior, he worked under Lt-Col AE Trigger and Lt-Col JAC Reay on the Witwatersrand.

KEYWORDS: 1950, CID, SAP College, Brig Fred van Niekerk, Communists, Detective Constable GJ Koch, Detective Constable J Masuret, Detective Constable SH White, Detective Constable WHA Scott, Detective Head Constable Daniells, Detective Sergeant D Roux, Security Branch founder, Gen JC Smuts, Dr DF Malan, Gen MCW Geldenhuis, JH Jackson, Lt-Col A. T. Spengler, Lt-Col Alfred Ernest Trigger (MBE, KPM), Lt-Col JAC Reay, Maj HJ du Plooy, Marshall Square, 7801, Detective Head Constable WJ Herbst, Police Printing Press, Republican Intelligence, Robey Leibbrandt, Security Branch, Streepfontein, Aliwal North, Suspect Staff, White House, Transvaal Town Police

AUTHOR: Brig (Ret) HB Heymans

Origins of the Security Branch

The Career of Detective Head Constable (Detective Warrant Officer) WJ Herbst a founder member of the Security Branch of the 1950’s and prior, he worked under Lt-Col AE Trigger and Lt-Col JAC Reay on the Witwatersrand.