{"id":5568,"date":"2013-06-18T07:17:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T07:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2013-06-18T07:17:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T07:17:44","slug":"senior-south-african-cop-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5568","title":{"rendered":"Senior South African cop killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4883\" alt=\"SAPS_badge\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A senior Gauteng Province police officer was found dead in an open field near Hammanskraal north of Pretoria on Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Early this morning his body was found with his hands and feet tied,&#8221; Brigadier Neville Malila said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Forensic experts are on the scene to establish the cause of death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the officer&#8217;s vehicle was found abandoned on the R101 in Rooival. His family told investigators he left home to go to work shortly after 2pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Late yesterday afternoon police officers on patrol spotted the officer&#8217;s vehicle parked next to the road,&#8221; said Malila.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;On inspection they found a uniform and an appointment certificate in the vehicle and started enquiring on the officers whereabouts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The officer&#8217;s name would not be released until his family was notified. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Gauteng Province police officer was found dead in an open field near Hammanskraal north of Pretoria on Tuesday, police said. &#8220;Early this morning his body was found with his hands and feet tied,&#8221; Brigadier Neville Malila said. &#8220;Forensic experts are on the scene to establish the cause of death.&#8221; He said the officer&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Senior South African cop killed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,350,12250,1499],"class_list":["post-5568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-gauteng","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african-police-service"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}