The Tembisa SAPS Cluster Commander, Major General Vincent Leshabane, urges residents to report firearms that belong to deceased residents.
“We are appealing to residents to report firearms that belong to the deceased. We urge residents to not keep firearms in their homes without reporting it to the police. We also encourage residents to not use these firearms,” he said.
Maj Gen Leshabane said family members or relatives of the deceased should go the their nearest police station to find out what can be done with a deceased person’s firearm.
Should residents find a firearm belonging to a deceased person, they can go to the magistrate’s court for a letter of authority.
A form called a J170 will be issued at the court. This form must be filled in by the executor.
It is the responsibility of the SAPS to accompany the executor, after completing the J170, to remove the firearm.
Another option is to surrender the firearm to the SAPS. The state will then confiscate the firearm.
The Ivory Park SAPS is also appealing to residents to not take the law into their own hands. The Ivory Park SAPS is currently facing a problem in which suspects are being killed by residents.
