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Ian Cameron says ‘police are probably the largest provider of illegal firearms’
Ian Cameron says police are probably the largest provider of illegal firearms in South Africa.
Action Society’s director of community safety made the statement after a police officer of Mitchell’s Plain was arrested in November 2023 after 15 firearms were allegedly stolen from the SAP13 voucher.
According to Cameron, it is a fact that the police are involved with local gangs in arms trade.
In 12 years, 26 025 firearms issued to police officers were lost or stolen and no account can be given to it.
Cameron says it is particularly disturbing in Mitchell’s Plain where gang-related violence is the order of the day and is getting worse.
“The murder statistics from the police station indicates they are number 16 in the country and number 10 in the province, with 42 murders between July and September 2023. That is 14 murders a month. This is 11 more than the same time in the previous year, and 16 more than the year before. Mitchell’s Plain is a gangster’s paradise, and we will never win the war while criminal police members are such an integral part of the problem. With that said, we salute the good cops for doing their jobs and hanging in there, despite the rotten apples around them ”says Cameron.
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