Former police officer accused of stealing gun

The case, which resumed before senior magistrate Batho Kgerethwa at the Ramotswa Magistrate Court on Wednesday, was moved to the Extension II Magistrate Court yesterday after the accused requested the state to produce an original transfer card of the rifle from the police armoury.Yesterday the prosecutor, Inspector Mogakolodi Pakadi from the Broadhurst Police Divisional Prosecutions Unit applied that another trial date be set as they were in the process of acquiring the original transfer card for the gun.

According to particulars of the offence, the accused is alleged to have stolen the rifle during a police pass-out parade at Otse Police College in 2004.He was arrested three years later trying to sell the gun in Mochudi. Pakadi informed Mmegi that after the gun went missing, police management searched for the gun among all the recruits without success."The accused person was then posted at Gaborone West Police Station the same year without any suspicion whatsoever linking him to the stolen gun.