{"id":108879,"date":"2016-01-01T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108879\/drug-issues-addressed-in-makause-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:45:21","slug":"drug-issues-addressed-in-makause-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/01\/drug-issues-addressed-in-makause-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug issues addressed in Makause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drug awareness campaign was recently held in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Primrose police, together with the Primrose Crime Prevention Youth Desk, members of the social development department, and several community leaders hosted the campaign at the Twelve Apostolic Church.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Amongst the visitors were people from NAPWA (NGO) and the Ekurhuleni Community Support Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers encouraged the community to say no to drugs and to seek help if they need it.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Youth Desk members performed an interactive and educational play after the keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs police we hope awareness campaigns like this will make our community aware of the dangers of substance abuse, and we will carry on organising similar events to educate the community,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other article 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='abbfc0d2730f82ac1da004d0ec892924'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently hosted a drug awareness campaign in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":108899,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-108879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108879","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=108879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}