{"id":108702,"date":"2015-12-18T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108702\/increase-in-alcohol-and-drug-abuse-in-the-area-say-police-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T17:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:50:41","slug":"increase-in-alcohol-and-drug-abuse-in-the-area-say-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/18\/increase-in-alcohol-and-drug-abuse-in-the-area-say-police-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in alcohol and drug abuse in the area &#8211; say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have noticed a rise in liquor and drug abuse in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appeal to the community to refrain from using drugs and drinking alcohol excessively,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As police attempt to crackdown on these types of cases, several operations have been held in the area.<\/p>\n<p>These operations have resulted in 13 suspects being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, three illegal taverns being shut down, and eight suspects were arrested on assault charges, believed to be related to alcohol.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe will be conducting more operations targeting illegal taverns to try and stop the increase of crime as a result of liquor abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are selling liquor illegally must think twice this festive season,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/99601\/couple-nabbed-for-allegedly-dealing-in-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Couple nabbed for allegedly dealing in drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81087\/drug-dealers-caught-by-germiston-saps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Men nabbed with drugs in Delville.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/77466\/police-nab-man-for-possession-of-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested after going into a toilet to take drugs.<\/a><\/p>\n<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='386acf0ec55406d979f9b7517c81d7e8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police concerned by the rise in cases of alcohol and drug abuse in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":108887,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-108702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702","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=108702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}