{"id":96136,"date":"2015-08-05T08:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T06:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=96136"},"modified":"2015-08-05T08:58:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T06:58:49","slug":"empd-nabs-16-drunk-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/05\/empd-nabs-16-drunk-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD nabs 16 drunk drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EMPD Public Order Policing Unit members prowled all three operational regions of Ekurhuleni from 10pm last Saturday to 11am last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They were targeting drivers who drink and drive.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSixteen people were apprehended and will be appearing in court in due course to face charges of drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol,\u201d said EMPD spokesman Wilfred Kgasago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive were arrested in Katlehong and four in Tembisa.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cVosloorus, Brackendowns and Brakpan yielded two each with one nabbed in Springs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cases of drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol were registered at the respective police stations against the offenders who were subsequently released after posting bail.<\/p>\n<p>They will be appearing in court as soon as the blood samples are processed and results finalised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other crime articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95929\/five-men-arrested-for-business-robberyorfive-arrested-during-march-against-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Five arrested during march against crime<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95813\/dagga-dealer-tries-to-bribe-cop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dagga dealer tries to bribe cop<\/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='0abb5b007a9f331c58ed69a8903b5417'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD members target people drinking and driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":96137,"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":[989,6101,1003,988,5369,979,969,1015,2734],"class_list":["post-96136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-drinking-and-driving","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-empd-public-order-policing-unit","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong","tag-melissa-hart"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","drinking and driving","Ekurhuleni","empd","EMPD Public Order Policing Unit","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong","melissa hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96136","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}