{"id":87710,"date":"2015-04-23T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/87710\/police-encourge-safety-awareness\/"},"modified":"2015-04-23T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T06:45:52","slug":"police-encourge-safety-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/23\/police-encourge-safety-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Police encourge safety awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police are warning residents to increase their safety awareness.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS, who has issued the following safety tips for people to always keep in mind:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Beware of hijackings in your drive-ways.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Ensure that you are not followed home by any suspicious vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Beware of people pretending to be buying houses. It has been reported that they use this method to gain access to a house in order to steal valuables.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Report any suspicious vehicles and\/or people in your street to the police.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Do not leave gates and doors open.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Install burglar proofing in front of windows, as criminals break windows and steal items from inside.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Know your neighbour so they can keep an eye on your premises.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Identify callers at your door before opening it or allowing entrance.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Look for foreign objects placed outside your premises which indicates to criminals which house is easily accessible.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Neighbours should alert each other if something is wrong. They should also switch the lights on in their houses and yards so that criminals know that you and your neighbours are aware of suspicious movement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other articles on safety tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/13558\/elsburg-saps-safety-tipsorsafety-tips-from-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Elsburg SAPS give safety tips.<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\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='31522ff36a4577e6a46740ad69ef96e4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful and alert \u2013 says Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":87716,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1318,1938,1509,1106,979,969,2730,999,3036,998],"class_list":["post-87710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-police","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-safety-tips","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","elsburg","elsburg police","Elsburg SAPS","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","safety tips","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87710","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=87710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}