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Holtom, Paul and Benjamin Jongleux. 2019 ‘National Measures to Prevent, Detect, and Address Diversion At and After Importation.’ Preventing Diversion: Comparing ATT and African Measures for Importing States, p. 8. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 1 August

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The South African Police Service (SAPS) provides some concrete examples of good practice with regard to imported conventional arms.

During 2017–18 SAPS marked 3,000 imported Beretta PX4 pistols before they were issued to officers. The pistols were also test fired and ballistic information was entered into INTERPOL's Integrated Ballistic Identification System. By recording ballistic information for weapons issued to police officers, it will be subsequently possible to determine if these firearms were diverted to illicit use when ballistic information is recovered from a crime scene.

SAPS takes further steps to mitigate the risk of diversion through loss or theft by using biannual and annual inspections and stocktaking. In addition, the number of firearms held in police stations and at unit level is limited (SAPS, 2018, p. 72).

ID: Q14045

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