{"id":5300,"date":"2011-06-17T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/06\/17\/asian-women-targeted-in-rise-of-gold-street-thefts\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:01:54","slug":"asian-women-targeted-in-rise-of-gold-street-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/17\/asian-women-targeted-in-rise-of-gold-street-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian women targeted in rise of Gold street thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>11 robberies reported in last month alone in Handsworth, Birmingham<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"251\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AsianGold_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>ASIAN women in the Handsworth area of Birmingham are being warned to be on their guard following a rise of gold thefts in the area.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police say 11 robberies were reported in the last month alone along Soho Road, Grove Lane and Rookery Road.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>High value necklaces and earrings are being snatched from victims at bus stops or as they walk along the street.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Now Police are launching a targeted operation to tackle the street robberies in the area and are advising Asian women to wear their gold items discreetly.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nChief Inspector Mike O\u2019Hara from Birmingham Central Police, said: \u201cWe are asking people to think twice about openly wearing valuable irreplaceable jewellery. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWe advise discretion; simply keep your jewellery tucked into clothes. You never know who is around you. It\u2019s a sorry fact of life but what you possess may be attractive to thieves. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThat said, we would like to reassure our local communities we are actively driving down street robbery and we do have a number of tactics in place to ensure this new wave of incidents is eradicated.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe force is also launching a marketing campaign to help promote crime prevention, particularly to members of the Asian community. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe campaign will involve radio appearances for local officers and advertising in affected streets. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOfficers will also be visiting Mosques and Temples to speak with worshippers and visitors, asking them to spread the word amongst family and friends.&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 robberies reported in last month alone in Handsworth, Birmingham &#13; &#13; &#13; ASIAN women in the Handsworth area of Birmingham are being warned to be on their guard following a rise of gold thefts in the area. &#13; Police say 11 robberies were reported in the last month alone along Soho Road, Grove Lane [&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-5300","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\/5300","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=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/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=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}