{"id":95102,"date":"2015-07-22T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95102\/elsburg-police-crackdown-on-crime\/"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:51:14","slug":"elsburg-police-crackdown-on-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/22\/elsburg-police-crackdown-on-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsburg police crackdown on crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg police have been hard at work combating crime in their area.<\/p>\n<p>During the week, July 13 to 19, they conducted several operations and 27 suspects were nabbed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the operations was the station\u2019s Operation Fiela.<\/p>\n<p>The operation included stop-and-searches.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During Operation Fiela, a number of suspects were arrested for offences ranging from minor to serious crimes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theft general: 3<\/li>\n<li>Possession of suspected stolen property: 2<\/li>\n<li>Assault and attempted housebreaking: 1<\/li>\n<li>Drunk in public: 4<\/li>\n<li>Assault GBH: 2<\/li>\n<li>Pointing a firearm: 1<\/li>\n<li>Assault of a police officer and defeating the ends of justice: 1<\/li>\n<li>Assault common related to domestic violence: 1<\/li>\n<li>Possession of dagga: 2<\/li>\n<li>Dealing in counterfeit goods: 1<\/li>\n<li>Attempted business burglary: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Elsburg SAPS station commander, Col Veeshani Arikum, thanked everyone who contributed to the successes.<\/p>\n<p>She further encouraged members to double their efforts and to get crime down to zero in the area.<\/p>\n<p>All the suspects appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court and their cases were postponed for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other Elsburg SAPS articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92686\/atm-bombers-target-elsburg-atm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News: ATM bombers target Elsburg ATM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89887\/be-aware-of-this-crime-tactic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be aware of this crime tactic<\/a><\/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='ffffda8ada4827900cbf65fd20281080'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful week for Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":95107,"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":[1041,989,1509,979,969,2734,999,998,5271],"class_list":["post-95102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-stats"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","crime","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS","stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95102","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=95102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}