Post Date: 20 January 2022
Dear Member
SAGA CALLS FOR MEETINGS WITH THE NATIONAL COMMISIONER AND MINISTER OF POLICE
Following months of public outrage over Norwood police station’s SAPS 13 store, a probe into this station has revealed the theft of 158 firearms. Three senior police officers have also been implicated. Last year a robbery led to a police officer being killed, and it was found that the firearms used came from the Norwood police station SAPS 13 store.
SAGA has previously raised concerns about the security of firearms kept by SAPS as this is not the first time that this has occurred.
“SAPS has a track record of negligence with the storage of firearms and with firearms disappearing out of their SAPS 13 stores. SAPS also reports that, on average, around 700 official SAPS firearms are lost and/or stolen every year. SAGA believes that SAPS may understate the numbers of lost and/or stolen firearms,” said SAGA Chairperson Damian Enslin on Tuesday.
For these reasons SAGA will be writing to the Minister and National Commissioner to call for a meeting whereby we can discuss these issues and come up with a solution to this problem.
Issued by THE SAGA TRUST
Kind Regards
Gaye Marshall Goodridge / Peter Goodridge
South African Gunowners’ Association (SAGA)
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