Western Cape police confiscated 35 firearms in the past week, this is in a n effort to remove guns off street. The operations are also in effort to prevent the increase of shooting incidents in the Cape metropole.
Warrant Officer Joseph Witbooi said “Forty-five
suspects were arrested and detained on charges of possession of unlicensed
firearms and ammunition. Concerted efforts from police officers in the previous
week resulted in the confiscation of 25 firearms in the City of Cape Town
District which comprise of 62 police stations and a total of 10 firearms in the
other four districts.
Forty-five suspects were arrested and detained on charges
of the possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
Last week, nine people were gunned down in Steenberg. This resulted
in further investigations, police searched a temporary office at the taxi rank
and found ammunition that had been abandoned. They also searched 17 taxi drivers
and confiscated four legally held firearms for ballistics testing.
Police said they also made several drug busts, most notably
at Cape Town International Airport, where drugs were found covered with
chocolate wrappers in the luggage of a person arriving from Dubai.
The drug busts included the arrest of a woman and a man
stopped on the N2 and found to have more than 500 Mandrax tablets.
by Lizeka Tsotetsi
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