{"id":192393,"date":"2025-02-27T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-afl-lnp-officers-indulge-in-lawlessness\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:06:51","slug":"liberia-afl-lnp-officers-indulge-in-lawlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-afl-lnp-officers-indulge-in-lawlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: AFL, LNP Officers Indulge in Lawlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">The Liberian National Police (LNP) and Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are key security institutions responsible for enforcing, maintaining law and order and protecting citizens. However, none of the above duties was on display during the evening hours of Wednesday, February 16 when LNP and AFL officers rather engaged in lawlessness in the full glare of the public in Paynesville- a situation that raised questions about their adherence to their respective mandates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The violent clash, which took place&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502270222.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberian National Police (LNP) and Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are key security institutions responsible for enforcing, maintaining law and order and protecting citizens. However, none of the above duties was on display during the evening hours of Wednesday, February 16 when LNP and AFL officers rather engaged in lawlessness in the full glare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192394,"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":[1086],"tags":[14427,258,256,50741,4479,4712,1107,7711,257,6749,254],"class_list":["post-192393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-afl","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-indulge","tag-lawlessness","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lnp","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/192393","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}