WESTERN CAPE: Police members attached to Operation Restore deployed in the Western Cape to curb the ongoing gang violence continue to eradicate the streets of unlicensed firearms and ammunition on Friday 11 August 2023.
Police members responded to information of ammunition at a premises in Delft. The members operationalized the information and searched the identified address in Rosendal. They confiscated a consignment of ammunition and arrested and detained two males aged 37 and 42 on charges of possession of unlicensed ammunition.
In an unrelated incident , whilst busy with patrols in Delft, the members received information about a firearm in Retreat. The members proceeded to the area and searched a premises in Sonata Street. They confiscated one shotgun and a consignment of ammunition and arrested and detained two males aged 25 and 29 on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.
Once charged the suspects are expected to make their respective court appearances in the Bellville and Wynberg Magistrate court’s on the mentioned charges.