{"id":218334,"date":"2025-12-28T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-traffic-police-ready-for-festive-season\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:35:03","slug":"botswana-traffic-police-ready-for-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-traffic-police-ready-for-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Traffic Police Ready for Festive Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Francistown \u2014 The Northern Division Traffic police are gearing up for a strict enforcement drive the festive season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">With roadblocks and officers stationed on major roads and highways, the police are making it clear they will be monitoring traffic closely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Deputy Traffic Divisional Commander (north), Senior Superintendent Kgosienalerona Sechoni, said the police would mount the usual permanent roadblocks and checks on the A1 Road and A3 Road as well as Francistown-Matsiloje road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">&#8220;There will also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512260381.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francistown \u2014 The Northern Division Traffic police are gearing up for a strict enforcement drive the festive season. With roadblocks and officers stationed on major roads and highways, the police are making it clear they will be monitoring traffic closely. Deputy Traffic Divisional Commander (north), Senior Superintendent Kgosienalerona Sechoni, said the police would mount the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,17549,257,662,8479,8098,254,9527],"class_list":["post-218334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-festive","tag-news","tag-police","tag-ready","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/218334","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=218334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}