SA Police Commissioner Gary Burns has defended rewards of up to $10,000 being offered to people who provide information that leads to major gun seizures.
Police have faced "dead ends" while investigating gun crimes in recent months because of a reluctance by many to provide information but officers would use any means necessary to take guns off the streets, Mr Burns said on ABC radio this morning.
"We're coming up against a lot of dead ends because of the nature of the people involved - not on all of these occasions but a large number of the occasions," he said. "You do have criminals dob in criminals - that's the nature of informants. We're only happy to take the firearms off the street."
"I think we average about 280 firearm related offences every year so we've started this year in a manner that obviously we wouldn't want which causes us a lot of concern," he said. "I think we've had about 18 (shootings) - we had about 16 up to the end of January or beginning of February and we've had another couple since. So it has slowed off a bit but one is too many."
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