Africa-Press – Angola. In the last three months, Angola has collected 31,392 weapons of war from private security and self-protection companies and has already imported more than 14,000 personal defense weapons, the Police announced.
According to the Deputy Director of Public Security and Operations of the National Police, Chief Superintendent Lázaro da Conceição, 35,388 magazines and 214,613 rounds of ammunition were also collected between February of this year and the present date, thus reaching 82% of the target that the authorities had set out to achieve.
Lázaro da Conceição stated that the objective of the Operation to Collect War Weapons Held by Private Security and Self-Protection Systems Companies is to remove prohibited weapons from this sector and replace them with weapons authorized by law.
The collection of this type of weapons reached more than 90% of the targets in almost all provinces, with the exception of Luanda, the capital of Angola, and Cunene.
The Angolan National Police officer stressed that weapons of war must be replaced by weapons of defense, as provided for in the Law on Private Security Companies, with 12 private companies licensed to import personal defense weapons.
To date, 14,320 defense weapons have been imported, of which 12,771 units have already been sold, including 9,955 shotguns and 99 pistols.
According to the official, the period for the coercive delivery of weapons of war has ended, so companies that continue to operate with this type of weaponry will be held criminally liable, under the terms of the Penal Code and the General Regime of Administrative Offences.
Lázaro da Conceição appealed to the population to denounce companies that still use weapons of war.
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