{"id":66958,"date":"2014-08-21T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66958\/mmc-for-community-safety-recognises-exceptional-feat-by-empd-public-order-policing-unit\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T12:13:00","slug":"mmc-for-community-safety-recognises-exceptional-feat-by-empd-public-order-policing-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/21\/mmc-for-community-safety-recognises-exceptional-feat-by-empd-public-order-policing-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"MMC for community safety recognises exceptional feat by EMPD Public Order Policing Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disappearance of three-year-old Cuburne van Wyk, from outside his parents&#8217; home, in Reiger Park, on Women&#8217;s Day, and the discovery of his partly burnt body in a bush behind a dump area a day later, galvanised members of the EMPD Public Order Policing Unit into action.<\/p>\n<p>They vowed to track down the person named as the suspect and, three days after the little boy&#8217;s disappearance, members of EMPD, with the assistance of the Reiger Park community, were able to apprehend the suspect.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was arrested in <a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66484\/chicken-nabbed-in-lambton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Piercy Avenue, Lambton<\/a>, on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 13.<\/p>\n<p>The MMC for Community Safety, Clr Mthuthuzeli Siboza, decided to express his appreciation for this remarkable achievement.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He invited the POP members to a function, where he thanked them in person and sat down to breakfast with them.<\/p>\n<p>Acting chief of police Johan Friedlander, deputy chief of police operations Goodman Mzolo and acting director specialised services Ngamlane Nkosi all attended the function.<\/p>\n<p>Siboza commended the unit members for sheer commitment and dedication to their work by working around the clock and succeeding in tracking down the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Order Policing members, as a token of appreciation, were each handed a sports bag and a USB flash drive-cum pen, courtesy of the MMC and EMPD senior management team.<\/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='7a26a774c78f60cd70d650bfb05b39aa'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD Unit commended for their sterling work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":66959,"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":[989,988,4374,979,969,1059,2734,1563,4317],"class_list":["post-66958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-empd-public-order-policing-members","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-lambton","tag-melissa-hart","tag-murder","tag-reiger-park"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","empd","empd public order policing members","germiston","germiston city news","lambton","melissa hart","murder","reiger park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66958","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=66958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}