The woman’s two-year-old daughter was also in the house, but was unharmed.
According to information received from Brakpan police, the woman was asleep in her Touwsrivier Street home, when she was awakened by three men, in her bedroom, at about 9.30pm.
The robbers claimed to know she was an officer and pointed guns at her, demanding money, her laptop and firearm.
They bound her with rope, gagged her and repeatedly struck her in the face with an iron bar.
The robbers, who gained access to the house by breaking a window in the kitchen, searched the property until they found the safe.
They threatened to kill the woman if she didn’t give them the keys.
The robbers fled with her service pistol, a black Glock 26, with 10 rounds of ammunition in the magazine.
Police and paramedics were called and the woman was treated on the scene, for injuries to her face and right hand.
A case of house robbery was opened and Brakpan police are investigating.
