Community Safety

Question by: 
Hon Mireille Wenger
Answered by: 
Hon Daniel Plato
Question Number: 
3
Question Body: 

From which police stations in the Western Cape have firearms been reported (a) lost and (b) stolen in the (i) 2014/15, (ii) 2015/16 and (iii) 2016/17 financial years?

Answer Body: 

3.       The South African Police Service informed me as follows:

          (a)(i)      A total of 13 firearms were lost during 2014/2015 at the following stations:

STATION

QTY

Bishop Lavis

1

Claremont

1

Gugulethu

2

Hermanus

1

Hout Bay

1

Khayelitsha

1

Kleinvlei

1

Malmesbury

2

Mitchells Plain

1

Mitchells Plain Local Criminal Record Centre (LCRC)

1

Nyanga

1

TOTAL

13

 

              (ii)      A total of 6 firearms were lost during 2015/2016 at the following stations:

STATION

QTY

Bellville

1

Cape Town

1

Somerset West

2

Woodstock

1

TOTAL

6

 

 

              (iii)     A total of 8 firearms were lost during 2016/2017 at the following stations:

STATION

QTY

Bellville

1

Darling

1

Gugulethu

1

Kraaifontein

1

Mfuleni

2

Nyanga

1

Stellenbosch

1

TOTAL

8

 

          (b)(i)      A total of 40 firearms were stolen during 2014/2015 at the following stations:

STATION

QTY

Athlone

1

Bellville

2

Bellville South

1

Cape Town

1

Cape Town Railway

1

Claremont

1

Cloetesville

1

Directorate Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI)

1

Durbanville

1

Grassy Park

1

Gugulethu

2

Klapmuts

7

Kuils River

2

Langa

1

Lansdowne

1

Lentegeur

1

Lingelethu West

1

Lwandle

1

Maitland

1

Mfuleni

1

Mitchells Plain Local Criminal Record Centre (LCRC)

1

Nyanga

3

Provincial Commissioner Crime Intelligence Gathering (PC CIG)

1

Philippi

1

Philippi East

3

Philippi Railway

1

Ravensmead

1

TOTAL

40

 

 

              (ii)      A total of 32 firearms were stolen during 2015/2016 at the following stations:

STATION

QTY

Athlone

1

Atlantis

1

Bellville

1

Cape Town

3

Clanwilliam

1

Delft

1

Directorate Priority Crime Investigations (DPCI)

2

Elands Bay

1

Franschoek

1

Goodwood

1

Groot Drakenstein

1

Harare

1

Hermanus

1

Kraaifontein

1

Lwandle

1

Maitland

1

Manenberg

1

Mowbray

1

Muizenberg

3

Operational Response Services (OPS)

2

Philippi

2

Ravensmead

2

Sea Point

1

Stellenbosch

1

Woodstock

1

Wynberg

1

TOTAL

32

 

              (iii)     A total of 29 firearms were lost during 2016/2017 at the following stations:

STATION

QTY

Athlone x 2

2

Beaufort West

1

Cape Town x 3

3

Delft

1

Goodwood

1

Grassy Park

1

Gugulethu

1

Harare

1

Hermanus

1

Knysna

1

Kraaifontein

1

Kuilsriver

1

Kwanokuthula

1

Macassar

1

Manenberg

1

Mitchells Plain

1

Nyanga x 2

2

Paarl East

1

Philippi

1

Philippi East x 2

2

Plettenberg Bay

1

Provincial Crime Intelligence Gathering (CIG)

1

Ravensmead

1

Table Bay Harbour

1

TOTAL

29

 

Date: 
Friday, November 17, 2017
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