{"id":13558,"date":"2013-08-22T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/13558\/elsburg-saps-safety-tipsorsafety-tips-from-the-police\/"},"modified":"2013-08-22T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T08:45:48","slug":"elsburg-saps-safety-tipsorsafety-tips-from-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/08\/22\/elsburg-saps-safety-tipsorsafety-tips-from-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety tips from the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg SAPS have issued safety tips for community members in the area to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS, has informed the GCN that there have been a number of housebreaking incidents in the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The police want to warn residents to enhance their safety awareness,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>These are the safety tips:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep doors and windows locked.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Ensure that curtains are properly closed at night, as it is easy to see through curtains.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Do not leave your keys under the mat, pot or plant.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Do not leave expensive items lying around.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Install burglar proofing in front of windows, as criminals can break windows to enter a household.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Know your neighbour so they can keep an eye on your place when you are not there.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Look for foreign objects placed outside your premises, meant to signal to criminals which houses are easiest to access.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Look for graphics on your fence and walls as well as tins of paint next to your gate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phooko said criminals use this modus operandi to target houses<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They also write &#8216;CMD&#8217; to show that they will definitely come back,&#8221; she added.<\/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='6e3115f9d6ac3c663e9a264fcefb6cd7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg SAPS give safety tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":14864,"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":[1503,1318,1509,1511,999],"class_list":["post-13558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime-awareness-campaign","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-pamphlets","tag-police"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime awareness campaign","elsburg","Elsburg SAPS","Pamphlets","police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558","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=13558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}