{"id":100097,"date":"2015-09-19T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100097\/police-warn-children-to-be-careful\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T07:36:34","slug":"police-warn-children-to-be-careful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/19\/police-warn-children-to-be-careful\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn children to be careful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston SAPS are warning school children to be alert and aware at all times.<\/p>\n<p>Capt Manaka George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS, said: \u201cSchool pupils are warned that they are being targeted by robbers, especially in the afternoons when they are walking home from school.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cA number of cases have been reported where the pupils have been robbed of their important belongings in the Germiston area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has the following safety tips for children:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Walk in groups after school, not alone.<\/li>\n<li>Pupils must hide their cellphones and other important belongings at all times.<\/li>\n<li>Pupils must be aware of the hot spots (near the bridge next to Germiston Lake and at all train stations).<\/li>\n<li>Do not talk to strangers.<\/li>\n<li>Pupils must be on the alert for criminals at all times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/99949\/thieves-strike-in-lambton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lambton family overpowered, tied-up in their home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/99990\/cpf-warns-of-fraudulent-use-of-its-name\/\" target=\"_blank\">CPF warns of fraudulent use of its name<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8f1be10f4914d2bcf38330bda14dd67f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children must take heed of these safety tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":100158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[977,969,1032,2734,7453,999,3036,8528,998],"class_list":["post-100097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-children","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-melissa-hart-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-safety-tips","tag-safety-warning","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["children","germiston city news","germiston saps","melissa hart","melissa hart. leigh hodgson","police","safety tips","safety warning","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}