{"id":472782,"date":"2010-03-25T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-7856440804063276430"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:01:02","slug":"sharp-rise-in-south-africa-police-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472782","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Rise in South Africa Police Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/3772300499\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3576\/3772300499_31dd348338_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/3772300499\/\">South Africa&#8217;s new police commissioner Bheki Cele is seen at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 (GCIS\/SAPA)<\/a><br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/53911892@N00\/\">Pan-African News Wire File Photos<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Sharp rise in SA police shootings <\/p>\n<p>The number of people shot and killed by South African police in 2009 increased by more than 25% on the previous year, new figures show. <\/p>\n<p>The Independent Complaints Directorate say that 556 people died in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>The news comes as politicians debate an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act about the use of force by police. <\/p>\n<p>Recent comments by senior ministers recommending a shoot-to-kill policy have provoked a heated argument about police violence in the country. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa has one of the highest rates of violent crime in the world and the country&#8217;s police chief Bheki Cele has defended the use of &#8220;deadly force&#8221; by police when necessary. <\/p>\n<p>But opposition parties and other rights groups claim lethal force has caused an increase in the loss of innocent lives. <\/p>\n<p>In November 2009 there was outrage over the shooting of a three-year-old boy by a police officer who allegedly mistook a pipe the boy was carrying for a gun. <\/p>\n<p>Story from BBC NEWS:<br \/>http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/pr\/fr\/-\/2\/hi\/africa\/8587560.stm<br \/>Published: 2010\/03\/25 16:26:41 GMT<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/16711557-7856440804063276430?l=panafricannews.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s new police commissioner Bheki Cele is seen at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 (GCIS\/SAPA)Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Sharp rise in SA police shootings The number of people shot and killed by South African police in 2009 increased by more than 25% on the previous year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}