{"id":82520,"date":"2015-03-03T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82520\/police-pursue-hijackers\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:23:14","slug":"police-pursue-hijackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/03\/police-pursue-hijackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot-out between hijackers and police results in recovery of vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Germiston South resident was hijacked in his Galway Street driveway at about 11.20pm, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not known who called the police to report the incident, but Germiston SAPS officers were soon on the heels of the hijacked vehicle,\u201d said WO Andr\u00e9 de Jager, communications officer for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During the chase, the suspects opened fire on the police and the officers shot back.<\/p>\n<p>This caused the hijackers to stop and abandon the vehicle.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The police officers pursued the fleeing suspects on foot, but did not manage to arrest any of them.<\/p>\n<p>While the suspects were fleeing, officers noticed one of them drop something.<\/p>\n<p>The officers called the SAPS K9 Unit for assistance and a police dog managed to find a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>No police officers were hurt during the shooting and the hijacked vehicle was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81790\/dont-become-a-victim-of-crime-during-load-shedding-orcrime-escalates-during-load-shedding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crime escalates during load shedding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79487\/12-things-consider-reporting-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 things to consider when reporting a crime<\/a><\/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='566bd6980e1d2dd381efc24836363ef5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police pursue hijackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82525,"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":[989,979,969,1032,1219,6732,2734,999,6733,998,1770],"class_list":["post-82520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-germiston-south","tag-hijackers","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-recovered-vehicle","tag-saps","tag-shoot"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","germiston city news","germiston saps","germiston south","hijackers","melissa hart","police","Recovered vehicle","SAPS","shoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82520","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=82520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}