{"id":226623,"date":"2026-03-11T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-target-plateless-vehicles-illegally-fitted-sirens-beacon-lights-in-enforcement-blitz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:30:34","slug":"zimbabwe-police-target-plateless-vehicles-illegally-fitted-sirens-beacon-lights-in-enforcement-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-target-plateless-vehicles-illegally-fitted-sirens-beacon-lights-in-enforcement-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Police Target Plateless Vehicles, Illegally Fitted Sirens, Beacon Lights in Enforcement Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched a nationwide crackdown targeting vehicles without registration plates as well as those illegally fitted with sirens, beacon lights and other emergency equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The operation comes amid growing concern over motorists deliberately removing number plates to avoid identification after committing criminal offences, including armed robberies and traffic violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">In a statement, police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said all vehicles found&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603110108.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 (ZRP) has launched a nationwide crackdown targeting vehicles without registration plates as well as those illegally fitted with sirens, beacon lights and other emergency equipment. The operation comes amid growing concern over motorists deliberately removing number plates to avoid identification after committing criminal offences, including armed robberies and traffic violations. In [&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":[258,256,15002,16926,10019,53875,7193,13546,257,53874,662,53876,254,7594,7402,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beacon","tag-blitz","tag-enforcement","tag-fitted","tag-illegally","tag-lights","tag-news","tag-plateless","tag-police","tag-sirens","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target","tag-vehicles","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226623","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=226623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226623\/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=226623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}