Nearly 400 SAPS firearms missing in six months

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Police officers lost or were robbed of 371 service firearms in the six-month period between October last year to March 2024.

This is according to Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who was responding to a parliamentary question by Rise Mzanzi National Assembly (NA) Member of Parliament Makashule Gana.

The firearms, Gana was told, went missing in the “second semester of the 2023/24 financial year”.

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