{"id":69940,"date":"2016-02-01T21:21:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T02:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69940"},"modified":"2016-02-01T21:21:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T02:21:41","slug":"bigger-police-presence-to-be-felt-on-winnipeg-transit-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/01\/bigger-police-presence-to-be-felt-on-winnipeg-transit-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger police presence to be felt on Winnipeg transit buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69941\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/winnipeg.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69941\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69941\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/winnipeg.jpg\" alt=\"Winnipeg Police Service seal (Photo from the official Twitter account of the Winnipeg Police Service).\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/winnipeg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/winnipeg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/winnipeg-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winnipeg Police Service seal<br \/>(Photo from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wpgpolice\" target=\"_blank\">official Twitter account of the Winnipeg Police Service<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG\u2014Police officers are going to start riding transit buses in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after repeated requests from the transit drivers&#8217; union.<\/p>\n<p>The number of assaults on bus drivers is up more than 50 per cent in the last year, for a total of 60 cases in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief Devon Clunis says he won&#8217;t actually be assigning officers to work their whole shift on buses yet.<\/p>\n<p>But officers in the downtown areas and some cadets will be instructed to use buses to get to and from their beats<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether the officers would be uniformed or in plain clothes.<\/p>\n<p>The plan will be discussed further at a meeting of the Winnipeg Police Board on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG\u2014Police officers are going to start riding transit buses in Winnipeg. The move comes after repeated requests from the transit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-69940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}