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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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Diversion of police firearms
In Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa, the diversion of firearms under the jurisdiction of the police has become a serious problem.
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.
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