{"id":44753,"date":"2013-09-27T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/44753\/thank-you-to-the-primrose-policeorspeedy-recovery-by-primrose-police\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T07:15:28","slug":"thank-you-to-the-primrose-policeorspeedy-recovery-by-primrose-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2013\/09\/27\/thank-you-to-the-primrose-policeorspeedy-recovery-by-primrose-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedy recovery by Primrose police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belinda van Niekerk, Gerdview, writes:<\/p>\n<p>I just want to take the opportunity to say a special thank you to the Primrose police, Const S Makhubele and Const M Mabaso in particular, for their quick response and a job well done.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>At 3.30am, on Friday, September 13, we were awakened by our dogs barking.<\/p>\n<p>My husband, Juan, got out of bed and found that both his and my son&#8217;s motorbikes had been stolen.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He then noticed a man running out of our property.<\/p>\n<p>I phoned the emergency services and explained what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>During my phone call, my husband and son, Jay-Jay Kruger, in desperation went looking for their motorbikes on foot.<\/p>\n<p>During their search they caught the attention of Consts Makhubele and Mabaso, who were travelling down the road towards our house.<\/p>\n<p>My husband asked the officers to please help them look for the stolen motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after that the constables phoned me with the news that they had found the motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the two officers, the motorbikes were recovered within about half an hour of them being stolen.<\/p>\n<p>I implore all residents be aware and alert.<\/p>\n<p>When you hear dogs barking don&#8217;t simple ignore the noise, get up and see what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>If we had ignored our dogs barking we would have been stuck without transport.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, by being alert and aware you might just be able to save someone&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to mention my brother and sister, to say thank you for their help in this matter.<\/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='5a245e9a52805642a6a095aeb71ee307'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the Primrose police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,18,6],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,979,1167,999,1000,997,998],"class_list":["post-44753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-opinion-2","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","opinion","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44753","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=44753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}