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The annual National Commemoration Day will be held in Pretoria on Sunday to honour 34 police officers and reservists who died in the line of duty between April 2022 and March 2023.
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said 488 suspects have been arrested since 2018 in connection with the killing of police officers.
Police minister Bheki Cele has urged officers to be the "first to act" and use "force proportional to the threat" as cop killings continue to rise.
The police believe that the armed suspects were fleeing the scene of an armed robbery on foot when they ran into police officers outside the mall.
Wendy Kloppers was shot and killed while on site at the Delft Symphony Way housing project in February.