{"id":174713,"date":"2024-06-18T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-new-police-boss-matsoso-speaks\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:07:09","slug":"lesotho-new-police-boss-matsoso-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-new-police-boss-matsoso-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: New Police Boss Matsoso Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em><em>&#8230;exhorts the nation to work together to fight escalating crime<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><strong><em>&#8230;vows to act professionally always<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong><em>&#8230;.and never be subservient to whims of politics<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><strong>N<\/strong>EWLY appointed Commissioner of Police, Borotho Matsoso, has spoken to the national masthead, the <em>Lesotho Times<\/em>, in his first media interview since his appointment by Prime Minister Sam Matekane last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Advocate Matsoso promises to do his best to combat spiralling crime. But he also emphasizes the need for the nation to work together to curb&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406170318.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;exhorts the nation to work together to fight escalating crime &#8230;vows to act professionally always &#8230;.and never be subservient to whims of politics NEWLY appointed Commissioner of Police, Borotho Matsoso, has spoken to the national masthead, the Lesotho Times, in his first media interview since his appointment by Prime Minister Sam Matekane last month. Advocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6962,4717,1407,38688,257,662,254,5938],"class_list":["post-174713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boss","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-matsoso","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}