{"id":72699,"date":"2014-11-05T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72699\/empd-officers-tackle-illegal-trading-in-katlehong\/"},"modified":"2014-11-05T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T10:14:54","slug":"empd-officers-tackle-illegal-trading-in-katlehong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/05\/empd-officers-tackle-illegal-trading-in-katlehong\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD officers tackle illegal trading in Katlehong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, illegal trading and pedestrians denied access to pavements due to an influx of vendors will be a thing of the past in Katlehong.<\/p>\n<p>Patrolling EMPD officers and Peace Corps members from the Katlehong Precinct recently embarked on operations where they cleaned and enforced the municipal by-laws.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They are also monitoring Kgotso, Hospital and Kumalo roads (around the Letsoho shopping complex\/centre).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dealers who were in possession of fake goods decided to run when they were approached by our EMPD officers and they left their items behind,&#8221; said Insp Kobeli Mokheseng, EMPD media liaison officer.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72701\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/11\/45GCNCRIMEITEMMH_559759647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72701\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/11\/45GCNCRIMEITEMMH_559759647-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Hawkers take up most of this pavement in Katlehong. The EMPD has been clearing the area of illegal hawkers during recent by-law operations.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/11\/45GCNCRIMEITEMMH_559759647-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/11\/45GCNCRIMEITEMMH_559759647-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/11\/45GCNCRIMEITEMMH_559759647.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawkers take up most of this pavement in Katlehong. The EMPD has been clearing the area of illegal hawkers during recent by-law operations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Our field marshals confiscated 5 000 counterfeit DVDs, 25 cartons of illicit Blue Mega, Sevilles, Everest, Westleigh, Dullahs and Remington Gold cigarettes, a 5kg box of Jockey underwear, Alaska, Nike, Puma, Supreme and Samson caps, packs of Adidas, Puma and Nike bags, trousers labelled Levis, Guess, Uzzi, Diesel and Puma.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All recovered counterfeit goods will be handed over to departments dealing with illegitimate items.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing operation and where &#8220;hawkers prohibited&#8221; signs have been placed and a yellow line (as a demarcation on a pavement) painted, officers on patrol will continue to enforce the by-laws.<\/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='a3f0770d55d7a6a55eed88afd9a208b5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illicit items confiscated and more regulatory signs erected around Katlehong shopping complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72700,"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":[5442,4641,989,988,5444,979,969,5443,1015,2734,1748],"class_list":["post-72699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-by-law-enforcement","tag-by-laws","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-fake-goods","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-illegal-traders","tag-katlehong","tag-melissa-hart","tag-peace-corps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["by-law enforcement","by-laws","crime","empd","fake goods","germiston","germiston city news","illegal traders","katlehong","melissa hart","peace corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699","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=72699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}