 Chihuri said police could invoke the public order and security act which allows an officer to use a firearm “if he finds other methods to be ineffective or inappropriate.”
Chihuri urged political parties to abide by the law to avoid clashes with police in the run-up to joint presidential, parliamentary, senate and local council polls on March 29.
“In certain circumstances we are also empowered to use force including use of firearms,” he told journalists at police headquarters in the southern African capital’s Harare.
His warning came on the back of a plea by veteran President Robert Mugabe to his supporters in December to refrain from violence in the upcoming polls and similar exhortations by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at the launch of his party’s election campaign on Saturday.
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