A drug laboratory with drugs to the value of R200 million was recovered in an operation in Midrand in August 2009. A transnational drug bust recovered drugs to the value of R600 million in Phoenix in September 2009. A drug lab to the value of R1 billion was discovered in December 2009. Other drug busts include the arrest in Kempton Park in February 2010 of a school teacher in possession of ephedrine to the value of R35 million. In March 2010, a drug lab in Benoni was closed down and drugs to the value of R5,4 million were seized. These are some of the successes the Hawks have scored in the past few months since their existence.