{"id":3959,"date":"2009-08-05T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/05\/asian-women-targetted-for-gold-jewellery\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:38:31","slug":"asian-women-targetted-for-gold-jewellery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/05\/asian-women-targetted-for-gold-jewellery\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian women \u2018targetted\u2019 for gold jewellery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Midland police officers issue warnings<\/h3>\n<div><strong>ASIAN women are being targetted in the street by thieves who snatch gold necklaces before fleeing, police in Wolverhampton have revealed.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The area has seen a rise in the number of Asian women victims aged between 25 &#8211; 60 over the past few weeks, police have revealed. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>In a direct appeal to the readers of The Asian Today, detectives from West Midlands Police urged Asian women to be extra vigilant when out and about. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A spokesman for West Midlands Police told The Asian Today women should \u201ctry and cover up neck jewellery where possible.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cAlthough we have seen an increase in the frequency of this particular crime, we would like to make it clear that the likelihood of becoming a victim of street robbery is still very small.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWhile we would encourage women in the city to be extra vigilant we do not want them to worry unnecessarily,\u201d the spokesman added. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>West Midlands Police officers are working hard to trace the offenders and bring them to justice.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midland police officers issue warnings ASIAN women are being targetted in the street by thieves who snatch gold necklaces before fleeing, police in Wolverhampton have revealed. &#13; The area has seen a rise in the number of Asian women victims aged between 25 &#8211; 60 over the past few weeks, police have revealed. &#13; In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}