{"id":53640,"date":"2014-02-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53640\/primrose-police-crack-down-on-liquor-licencesorcrack-down-operation-leads-to-arrests\/"},"modified":"2014-02-19T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T07:12:42","slug":"primrose-police-crack-down-on-liquor-licencesorcrack-down-operation-leads-to-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/02\/19\/primrose-police-crack-down-on-liquor-licencesorcrack-down-operation-leads-to-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Crack-down operation leads to arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crack-down operation by the Primrose police proved successful, with the arrest of three men.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested for selling liquor without a licence.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The operation, which took place on February 8 and 9, focused on cracking down on all forms of crime, and included patrols through Primrose&#8217;s informal settlements.<\/p>\n<p>During one of the Saturday patrols, in the Makause informal settlement, officers approached two men selling liquor.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers asked the men for their liquor licence and when they could not produce one, they were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The third man was arrested on Sunday, under similar circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, as police, encourage the community to stop buying liquor from people without the correct licensing,&#8221; said communications officer for the Primrose police, Const Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The continued support of these kinds of businesses encourages their existence, whereas a lack of support may see them ensuring they have the right licensing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three men appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p>One of the three was released on a warning while the other two men were made to pay a fine before being released.<\/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='d91bc9e12d62ec65e38c949a2aea6258'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police crack-down on liquor licences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":53714,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,997,998,2878],"class_list":["post-53640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps","tag-selling-liquor-without-a-licence"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","selling liquor without a licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640","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=53640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}