{"id":2147,"date":"2025-01-03T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/police-officer-arrested-after-allegedly-releasing-prisoners-to-celebrate-new-years-eve-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:31:22","slug":"police-officer-arrested-after-allegedly-releasing-prisoners-to-celebrate-new-years-eve-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/police-officer-arrested-after-allegedly-releasing-prisoners-to-celebrate-new-years-eve-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer arrested after allegedly releasing prisoners to celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5fm51f7017q25nu3yr0368x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A police officer in Zambia has been arrested for allegedly releasing over a dozen prisoners so they could celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5fm7ooe00083j6m7j17vp4p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Detective Inspector Titus Phiri \u201cforcibly seized cell keys\u201d on Tuesday morning whilst \u201cin a state of intoxication,\u201d Zambia\u2019s Police Service said in a press release on Wednesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5fm7ooe00093j6mx2as0ubq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cSubsequently, (Phiri) unlocked both the male and female cells and instructed the suspects to leave, stating they were free to cross over into the New Year,\u201d the police statement said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5fm7ooe000c3j6mxfsqm8zv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A manhunt has been launched for 13 detainees who remain at large, according to the police statement. Some had been facing allegations of assault and theft among other crimes, it said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5fm7ooe000e3j6mbhndcp3g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe Zambia Police Service reiterates its commitment to upholding law and order and assures the public that decisive action will be taken against any officer found to be abusing their authority or acting contrary to the law,\u201d it added.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer in Zambia has been arrested for allegedly releasing over a dozen prisoners so they could celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve. Detective Inspector Titus Phiri \u201cforcibly seized cell keys\u201d on Tuesday morning whilst \u201cin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}