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Irish-Qhobosheane, Jenni. 2021 ‘Diversion of Police Firearms.’ How to Silence the Guns? Southern Africa's Illegal Firearms Markets, pp. 19-21. Geneva: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Geneva. 19 October

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South Africa has the highest number of both police officials and police-issue firearms, with 192,277 police officials and 258,000 firearms. In contrast, Mozambique has about 20,000 police officers and 24,000 firearms and Zimbabwe 19,500 officers and 23,000 firearms…

In South Africa, 26,277 police-issue firearms were lost or stolen between 2002/3 and 2018/19, according to published information. The majority of these (18,538) were lost or stolen during the eight years from 2002/03, with a much lower 7,739 being lost or stolen in the subsequent nine years to 2018/19.

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