{"id":88573,"date":"2015-05-04T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88573\/police-officer-shot-by-rifle-wielding-robber\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T13:03:51","slug":"police-officer-shot-by-rifle-wielding-robber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/04\/police-officer-shot-by-rifle-wielding-robber\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer shot by rifle-wielding robber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Elsburg police officer, Const Victor Netshidivhe, is recovering in hospital after being shot.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place at about 7.17pm on Sunday evening, at the Rondebult Supermarket, in Heidelberg Road, Rondebult.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The suspects, of which there are believed to be four, opened fire on the Elsburg SAPS police vehicle with a rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police were out patrolling and went to the shopping centre,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThinking the police were responding to the complaint of business robbery, the suspects opened fire on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netshidivhe was shot in his lower body and was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of attempted murder and business robbery have been opened.<\/p>\n<p>The four suspects are still at large and anyone with information can contact the Elsburg SAPS Station Commander Col Veeshani Arikum on 011 827-2060.<\/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='2e59d3d14073ac9fd3e05553f575cca4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking they are going to be caught robbers shoot police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":88575,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1938,1509,1106,979,969,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-88573","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-police","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","elsburg police","Elsburg SAPS","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88573","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=88573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}