{"id":184048,"date":"2024-11-06T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-banned-from-using-cellphones-on-duty\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T13:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:08:21","slug":"zimbabwe-police-banned-from-using-cellphones-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-banned-from-using-cellphones-on-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Police Banned From Using Cellphones On Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police has, with immediate effect, banned the use of cellphones by officers on duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">This comes at a time the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Kazembe Kazembe, has raised concern over the conduct of some police officers while the Commissioner General of police, Godwin Matanga, has pledged to deal decisively with wayward officers, who were caught on camera allegedly receiving bribes at Mabvuku turn-off in Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The police memo dated October 31, 2024 addressed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411060204.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Republic Police has, with immediate effect, banned the use of cellphones by officers on duty. This comes at a time the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Kazembe Kazembe, has raised concern over the conduct of some police officers while the Commissioner General of police, Godwin Matanga, has pledged to deal decisively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9363,29345,9134,257,662,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-184048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banned","tag-cellphones","tag-duty","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184048","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=184048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}