Armed men steal pistols, rifles from Northern Cape police station

[schumi]

Police in the Northern Cape are on the hunt for four men who robbed the Windsorton police station on Wednesday night.

Windsorton is about 60km north of Kimberley.

It is alleged that four men – who were armed – entered the station, attacked and tied up two officers who were on duty, before robbing them of their service pistols.

More at:

Armed men steal pistols, rifles from Northern Cape police station

Police in the Northern Cape are on the hunt for four men who have robbed the Windsorton police station.

www.news24.com

 

[Flanders]

Probably an inside job.

 

[Hemps]

How far we have fallen.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Welcome To Africa

 

[Beyond.Celsus]

They should start keeping the guns at SARS.
Definitely more secure than the garages we call police stations.

 

[Jabulani22]

They should make it illegal to steal guns from people , surely that will fix the problem.

 

[lkswan747]

I pity the law abiding law enforcement officers. It is incidents like this that give the good SAPS members a bad name!

 

[SoldierMan]

What the actual.....
You gotta have some big 'ol cojones to rob a police station, for firearms no less. Though if it's one of these pop-up type stations made out of cardboard then I guess you can understand the brazenness of the criminals.

 

[borro]

It's a living.

 

[wbot]

The day of the robbery:

 

[Packer]

What the actual.....
You gotta have some big 'ol cojones to rob a police station, for firearms no less.

It’s nothing to do with that. It’s a sad reflection on the quality of our police. This should be a big deal. It’s a police station FFS. It doesn’t require ‘cojones’ to take candy from a baby.

 

[Nanfeishen]

What the actual.....
You gotta have some big 'ol cojones to rob a police station, for firearms no less. Though if it's one of these pop-up type stations made out of cardboard then I guess you can understand the brazenness of the criminals.

Actually probably quite easy, small town, mid week, night time, nobody would be expecting anything, element of surprise.Surprised it doesnt happen more often.

 

[maumau]

Ban all guns /s

 

[Zurg]

Ban all guns /s

And what happens when the bad guys smuggle guns and use it against unarmed civilians and forces?

 

[Zurg]

That's why I used /s - I was being sarcastic

Stroke my ego please, delete

 

[maumau]

Stroke my ego please, delete

Done, now you need to delete your posts

 

[Zurg]

Done, now you need to delete your posts

I'm not allowed to.

 

[schumi]

Duo arrested after cops robbed at Northern Cape police station

Two men are expected to appear in the Barkly West magistrate’s court on Friday in connection with an armed robbery at the Windsorton police station in the Northern Cape in October. Four men attacked the police station, 60km north of Kimberley, on the night of October 2 and tied up the only two officers at the station, before raiding the safe for firearms. They took four 9mm pistols and two R5 rifles. “It later transpired that the same group committed another armed robbery at a BP

More at : https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...-cops-robbed-at-northern-cape-police-station/

 

[Sean008]

Well done Hawks. Should have rather put the perps out of their misery, ie put them down !

 

[Hemi300c]

Another 2 to get.