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Chatsworth security boss expected in court over firearm charges By Zainul Dawood Share Durban - THE owner of a private security company based in Chatsworth is expected to appear in the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges relating to the Firearms Control Act. His arrest comes two months after police launched the Eyes and Ears Initiative (E2), an official joint crime-fighting initiative, with the private security industry. According to Durban Metro police spokesperson Parboo Sewpersad, a joint raid with the SAPS was conducted on three premises, the Siyaya Security offices, t...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. 2020 has been a tumultuous year for the SAPS. At least 20 rotten cops, many at the apex of the service, have been arrested, charged and dismissed for fraud and corruption amounting to hundreds of millions of rand. Five years ago this colonic irrigation of senior ranks in law enforcement would have been unlikely if not unthinkable unless forced by an order of the court. The arrests come after years of dogged investigation, often under life-threatening and career-limiting conditions by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (...

And i commend them for employing firearms control. the assailant was taken into custody and still alive. >> let's talk about the assailant. clearly the judge was surprised by his apparent admission that he pulled the alarm. why is that a big deal? >> it's a big deal because we refer to that as reckless endangerment. when he did that, he put the citizens in that establishment in a possibility of becoming injured. >> why? because they would run out? >> exactly. one thing we take into consideration in law enforcement. when we have an active shooter, we have two options. either to evacuate or shel...

We don't know that it was, but he was telling the police officer he had a gun almost as if he was inviting being shot he didn't. >> we refer to this as death by cop. i see an interesting contrast and comparison with the stephon clark case in sacramento. he was in possession of a cell phone. he was shot by police officers. here we have an officer that exercised what we refer to as firearms control in the law enforcement world. >> in the face of being told the guy had a gun. >> right. the vast majority of suspects that are arrested in possession of firearms are taken into custody without a singl...