{"id":148680,"date":"2017-04-07T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148680\/crime-remains-a-problem-in-makause\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:09:05","slug":"crime-remains-a-problem-in-makause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/07\/crime-remains-a-problem-in-makause\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime remains a problem in Makause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose Police Station commander Col Albertina Vesi and the station\u2019s management recently visited the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The visit allowed the team to address the community\u2019s growing concerns over crime in the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCrimes such as murder, rape, robbery and assault have increased in the area and this is of great concern to both residents and police,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Vesi once again encouraged the community to form and join community patrol teams.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThese teams will work with police to fight crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope community members do their part in the fight against crime, as two hands are better than one,\u201d said Vesi.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving, the team encouraged the community to report crimes in the area and reminded them that harbouring criminals is a crime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147450\/firearm-linked-to-murder\/\">Firearm linked to murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147004\/man-sustains-serious-injuries-in-robbery\/\">Man sustains serious injuries in robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147431\/community-must-report-altercations-where-empd-officers-are-involved\/\">Community must report altercations where EMPD officers are involved<\/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='c35b6d3e2bb6769b865306f1ac249a69'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A management team from the Primrose Police Station visited the Makause informal settlement to address the community\u2019s concerns over crime in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":148681,"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-148680","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\/148680","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=148680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}