{"id":552520,"date":"2007-06-08T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552520-techno-boost-in-crime-battle-2.html"},"modified":"2007-06-08T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:09:17","slug":"techno-boost-in-crime-battle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552520-techno-boost-in-crime-battle-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Techno-boost in crime battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The R75million anti-crime campaign, called the Crime Line, is an initiative of Primedia and the SAPS. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The bulk of the funds, R50million, came from the media group and R25million from the SAPS. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The initiative involves the setting up of a data centre, which is now operational. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Citizens can blow the whistle on crime by cellphone SMSes or e-mail to the centre. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Data capturers have been trained by the SAPS. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula said: &quot;Citizens must identify wayward citizens in order to have a better South Africa. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The initiative will assist national Police Commissioner, Jackie Selebi, who has pledged R25million to the project. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Though we signed a one-year contract, I hope the partnership will be longer than that.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Project coordinator and Primedia group head Yusuf Abramjee said: &quot;We want to use our reach and equipment to make a difference to South Africans&#8217; lives.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Talk Radio 702 presenter John Robbie handed over 65 ID tool machines to the SAPS. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The machine is a mobile fingerprint identification device to identify suspects and criminals. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=77804\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radical campaign aimed at reducing crime was launched in Sandton, Johannesburg, on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}