{"id":145603,"date":"2017-03-01T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145603\/dagga-plants-removed\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:39:14","slug":"dagga-plants-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/01\/dagga-plants-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dagga plants uprooted in Marathon informal settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Primrose police are reminding the community of Primrose that the possession and use of dagga is a crime.<\/p>\n

With this in mind officers from the Primrose Police Station, together with community patrollers and members of the Primrose Crime Prevention Youth Desk, recently visited the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p>

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It had been reported to police that there were several large dagga plants growing in the area.<\/p>\n

The team was able to locate the plants, and uprooted and transported them to the Primrose Police Station to be destroyed.<\/p>

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\u201cAs police we are fighting drug abuse in the community and have noted that a number of scholars from local schools are bunking classes to go and use the dagga in the informal settlements.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung children learn from their elders and will be influenced by this kind of behaviour. We therefore appeal to the community to destroy such plants or to contact the police when they find them,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n

The Primrose police\u2019s station commander, Col Albertina Vesi, congratulated the team on the success of the operation.<\/p>\n