Bid to control KZN gun licences
2003-06-09 19:01
Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal - The police commissioner for the massive Umfolozi policing area in northern KwaZulu-Natal has designated six out the 22 stations under his jurisdiction to control firearm licence applications.
Captain Musa Khaba said that Assistant Commissioner BO Maseko, whose area runs from the Tugela to the Mozambique border, had designated the police stations at Richards Bay, Empangeni, Kwamsane, Sundumbili, Umbombo and Emanguzi to act as firearms registration control centres.
Any applications made at any of the 18 other stations in the Umfolozi police district would automatically be passed to the six for processing.
Khaba said the step was taken to achieve better control of firearm licence applications which in the past had been open to abuse and fraud.
The new regulations governing such applications would come into force with immediate effect and were being made under the stricter provisions of the Firearms Control Act 60 of 2000 which replaced the more lax conditions of Act 75 of 1969, Khaba said.
- SAPA