{"id":74161,"date":"2014-11-21T15:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=74161"},"modified":"2014-11-21T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:19:37","slug":"breaking-news-empd-arrest-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/21\/breaking-news-empd-arrest-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: EMPD arrest one of their own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An EMPD officer has been arrested in Primrose, this afternoon (Friday).<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the man was arrested after an investigation revealed that he had joined the EMPD under false pretenses.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The initial investigation revealed that the man had done a number of illegal things in order to join the force,&#8221; explained Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has been part of the force for the past seven years and in that time he has also committed a number of crimes.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The officer was arrested at his residence in Rietfontein Road, Primrose.<\/p>\n<p>Until his arrest he was a member of the Loss Control Investigations Unit, base Ekurhuleni-wide.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN will release further details as soon as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='cb2d04733814531072bf2733d0048595'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for allegedly joining EMPD fraudulently and committing other crimes while on the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":74090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,988,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-74161","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-empd","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74161","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}