{"id":122027,"date":"2016-05-20T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122027\/police-urge-community-to-set-up-neighbourhood-watch\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:24:24","slug":"police-urge-community-to-set-up-neighbourhood-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/20\/police-urge-community-to-set-up-neighbourhood-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Police urge community to set up neighbourhood watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police are in the process of consulting the community to find out how they can deliver a better service.<\/p>\n<p>A crime discussion meeting was held by the Alberton SAPS last Saturday, at Leondale High School, where the police and the community discussed the matter of service.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Acting Alberton Vispol head Capt Solomon Matlou and sector manager WO Gideon Mabaso addressed the community about safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>An understanding was reached that the community needs to form a neighbourhood watch that will be active in fighting crime in the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The group needs to work closely with the police, without subjecting suspected criminals to mob justice.<\/p>\n<p>Crime meetings are held monthly in Leondale and everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121053\/join-the-sector-street-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\">Join the sector street groups<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121709\/empd-swoop-on-germiston-station\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD swoop on Germiston Station<\/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='8d834ed39998ee29b7ea1efe417c89c3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberton SAPS recently met with the Leondale community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":122028,"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":[2472,11076,989,979,969,1068,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-122027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-alberton-saps","tag-community-meeting","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leondale","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["alberton saps","community meeting","crime","germiston","germiston city news","leondale","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122027","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=122027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}