Cailynn Pretorius19 August 2025 | 6:50

There's no investigative capacity to deal with illegal firearms in Cape Tow - Vearey

According to the former detective, firearms owned legally end up lost and stolen and find their way to the black market.

There's no investigative capacity to deal with illegal firearms in Cape Tow - Vearey

FILE: Some of the guns destroyed by the SAPS in Vanderbijlpark on 9 July 2025. Picture: @SAPoliceService/X

CAPE TOWN - Former head of detectives in Cape Town, Jeremy Vearey, said there is no investigative capacity to deal with illegal firearms in the city.

According to the former detective, firearms owned legally end up lost and stolen and find their way to the black market.

Vearey has added that many of the guns end up on the Cape Flats but there are not enough investigation resources to track the movement of illegal firearms.

"The scale of the prevalence of guns out there and the smuggling of guns, the trafficking, whether it's across the border or internal to the country, there's simply no such capacity."