{"id":2163,"date":"2012-09-27T02:38:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T02:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2012-09-27T02:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T02:38:36","slug":"1202-police-firearms-missing-south-african-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;1202 police firearms missing&#8217; &#8211; South African minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sapsguns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2164\" title=\"sapsguns\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sapsguns-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sapsguns-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sapsguns.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A total of 1202 police firearms have gone missing since the beginning of last year, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mthethwa said in a written Parliamentary response that 885 firearms were lost or stolen last year and 317 this year. Of those 170 had been recovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Democratic Alliance said the large number of lost police firearms was fuelling an illicit trade in weapons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This means that the majority of these dangerous weapons are still out there on the street, most likely being used to commit crime,&#8221; said DA spokeswoman Dianne Kohler-Barnard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The reality is that the SAPS is fuelling the illegal firearms trade in this country.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 1202 police firearms have gone missing since the beginning of last year, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa revealed on Wednesday. Mthethwa said in a written Parliamentary response that 885 firearms were lost or stolen last year and 317 this year. Of those 170 had been recovered. The Democratic Alliance said the large number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;1202 police firearms missing&#8217; &#8211; South African minister&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1412,1413,553,205,12250],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-firearms","tag-missing","tag-nathi-mthethwa","tag-police","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sapsguns.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}