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Dead end looms for criminals as police given modern guns

FN SCAR rifle.

The police have been issued with new and sophisticated guns to fight crime in the latest move to modernise the country’s security agencies.

The project will see the over 65,000 general duty police officers and their 25,000 border patrol and anti-stock theft unit counterparts armed with the latest model of weapons.

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