CAPE TOWN – The vigilance and determination of police members to rid the streets of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, led to the successful recovery of firearms in two isolated incidents.

Elsiesriver police members were busy with patrols near to Forest drive on Friday, 21 January 2022, at around 22:10, when they heard gunshots. The members drove in the direction and saw an unknown man running with an object in his hand, and gave chase. The suspect tried to evade arrest whilst the police members went all out and managed to apprehend and searched the man. A 9 mm pistol with ammunition was confiscated. The 21-year-old man has been arrested and detained on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.

In an unrelated incident, police members of Lockdown II were busy with stop and search operations when they searched a man in Kwazakhele Street in Wesbank in the early hours this morning, at around 03:30 and confiscated a 9mm pistol with ammunition. The 31-year-old man was arrested and detained on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition as he could not provide a valid licence to be in possession of the firearm.

Once charged the suspects are expected to make their respective court appearances in Goodwood and Blue Downs on the mentioned charges

Source: South African Police Service