{"id":8207,"date":"2025-08-15T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=8207"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:57:59","slug":"police-officer-on-run-after-stealing-marked-ford-ranger-from-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=8207","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer on Run After Stealing Marked Ford Ranger from HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HARARE \u2013 Mashonaland Central police have launched a manhunt for Assistant Inspector Mandizvidza, one of their own, who allegedly stole a marked police Ford Ranger from the Police General Headquarters (PGHQ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An urgent internal memo dated August 13, obtained by ZimLive, alerted all stations in Mazowe district to &#8220;mount roadblocks and patrols&#8221; to intercept the officer and the vehicle (Registration ZRP 033).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The vehicle is stolen at PGHQ by A\/Insp Mandizvidza and is believed to be in Mashonaland Central province,&#8221; stated the memo from Mazowe District police command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If located, arrest and detain for CID Bindura.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police sources expressed bewilderment at the incident, noting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s highly unusual for a serving assistant inspector to vanish with state property. We are treating this as a serious breach of trust and protocol.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The memo did not clarify how Mandizvidza, a mid-ranking officer, allegedly orchestrated the theft from the tightly secured headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities confirm the nationwide alert remains active as investigations continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us @ Zim GBC News Your Voice, Our Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News | Global News From An African Perspective\u00a92025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts HARARE \u2013 Mashonaland Central police have launched a manhunt for Assistant Inspector Mandizvidza, one of their own, who allegedly stole a marked police Ford Ranger from the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,118,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-court-and-crime","category-court-and-crime-2","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}