South Sudan government said it has arrested at least 37 police officers who have been involved in the illegal collection of money from foreigners, the minister of interior stated.

The government said last month, it was working to arrest unnamed police senior officers for selling – illegally – residency permit stickers in several neighborhoods in Juba, the country’s capital city.

Speaking during a parliamentary sitting in Juba on Monday following his summon, interior minister, Chiangjiek Gey, said there are some few criminals in the police taking advantage of the ongoing situation in the country.

“They are mixed and some criminals in fact made their way-in into these police. We have good people, we have good officers, we have good young people but also we have many criminals,” Gey told lawmakers in Juba Monday.

He, however affirmed that the police arrested 37 members of South Sudan’s CID police officers who he accused of collecting illegal money from foreigners and thus breaking the law.

“We have arrested so many of them, now we have 37 officers and they are in jail and we are working on dismissing them. These are the people collecting money from the foreigners, these are the people breaking the law,” Gey said.