{"id":250182,"date":"2026-11-13T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ohangwena-police-urged-to-prioritise-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:00:50","slug":"namibia-ohangwena-police-urged-to-prioritise-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ohangwena-police-urged-to-prioritise-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Ohangwena Police Urged to Prioritise Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">EENHANA &#8211; Ohangwena regional police commander, Commissioner Ottilie Kashuupulwa has called on police leaders to prioritise the mental health and general well-being of officers, warning that stress and personal challenges are affecting their performance and service delivery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">She made the remarks during the Ohangwena Regional Police Wellness Day held at the Regional Police Headquarters in Eenhana on Wednesday, under the theme &#8216;Mental Health Matters<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Building a Healthier and Stronger Community.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130139.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EENHANA &#8211; Ohangwena regional police commander, Commissioner Ottilie Kashuupulwa has called on police leaders to prioritise the mental health and general well-being of officers, warning that stress and personal challenges are affecting their performance and service delivery. She made the remarks during the Ohangwena Regional Police Wellness Day held at the Regional Police Headquarters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":250183,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,5731,8854,4706,724,257,14312,662,11956,254,6206],"class_list":["post-250182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-health","tag-mental","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ohangwena","tag-police","tag-prioritise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"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\/250182","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=250182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}