{"id":77229,"date":"2014-12-28T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/77229\/metro-unleashes-peace-corps-for-the-festive-season\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:33:59","slug":"metro-unleashes-peace-corps-for-the-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/12\/28\/metro-unleashes-peace-corps-for-the-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro unleashes peace corps for the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the unleashing of the new Peace Corps, recently, the metro is gearing up to keep the metro safe this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly 750 Peace Corps members were passed out at Mehlareng Stadium in Tembisa to increase the EMPD\u2019s visibility and to curb crime during the holidays in the metro.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The men and women in the green uniform (Peace Corps) will assist in the city\u2019s crime prevention, by-law enforcement and social crime prevention efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The peace Corps will be assisting in reporting service delivery hiccups like power outages and water and sewer pipe bursts as and when they get exposed to such.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>According to the metro\u2019s executive mayor, Clr Mondi Gungubele, with the festive season in full swing, there would not have been a better time to unleash these members onto the streets of Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that while the festive is seen unequivocally as a time for relaxation and celebration of a year that was, it has also become one of the most notorious periods for crime in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs communities celebrate in peace, thugs prowl our streets looking for the nearest target to attack,\u201d Gungubele said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that to make Ekurhuleni a safer place to stay, live and play \u2013 the metro is always looking at various interventions to bring peace and stability in the area.<\/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='70dc431987c296785a0a7888f3fe7ecb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping to keep the peace this holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":77230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[989,1003,2384,979,969,2734,1002,1004,1748],"class_list":["post-77229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-festive-season","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-peace-corps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["crime","Ekurhuleni","festive season","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","peace corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77229","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=77229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}