{"id":235667,"date":"2026-06-08T05:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zrp-intensifies-war-on-drugs-arrests-suspects-in-multiple-raids\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:20:59","slug":"zimbabwe-zrp-intensifies-war-on-drugs-arrests-suspects-in-multiple-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zrp-intensifies-war-on-drugs-arrests-suspects-in-multiple-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZRP Intensifies War On Drugs, Arrests Suspects in Multiple Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says it has stepped up nationwide operations targeting drug and substance abuse resulting in the arrest of several suspects and the seizure of drugs and unregistered medicines in Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a statement, national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said a series of intelligence-led operations conducted in late May led to multiple arrests in different parts of the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Police first acted on information received on 26 May and raided a house in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050130.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) says it has stepped up nationwide operations targeting drug and substance abuse resulting in the arrest of several suspects and the seizure of drugs and unregistered medicines in Harare. In a statement, national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said a series of intelligence-led operations conducted in late May led to [&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":[258,256,7845,6614,8013,11456,257,7886,254,4360,6618,4686,421,5587],"class_list":["post-235667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-drugs","tag-intensifies","tag-multiple","tag-news","tag-raids","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects","tag-war","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235667","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=235667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235667\/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=235667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}