{"id":20844,"date":"2022-06-08T15:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:34:58","slug":"two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges","title":{"rendered":"Two police officers arrested on kidnapping charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Two officers from Mozambique\u2019s Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) have been arrested on charges of kidnapping and fraud in Mogovolas district, Nampula province, a spokeswoman for the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has said.<\/p>\n<p>Enina Tsinine told a press conference that the agents kidnapped two brothers and held them captive for four days until receiving 10,000 meticais (\u20ac140.00) ransom each.<\/p>\n<p>The accused hid the victims in a residence in the city of Nampula, the provincial capital, Tsinine said. They initially demanded a ransom of 100,000 meticais (\u20ac1,466.00), but failed to get that amount after \u201cprolonged negotiations with the family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two UIR officers, three other people involved in the kidnapping have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Some Mozambican cities, mainly provincial capitals, have since 2020 again been hit by a wave of kidnappings, targeting mainly businesspeople or their families, but in this case the victims were not wealthy, but people from poor neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>In an assessment presented at the beginning of June, Mozambique\u2019s Attorney General, Beatriz Buchili, said that kidnapping was on the increase, and the criminal groups involved had cross-border connections, maintaining cells in countries such as South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to Buchili, 14 cases of criminal kidnapping were recorded in 2021, as compared to 18 in 2020, but other cases escape official accounts, and in most of these the outcome is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, the Police of the Republic of Mozambique announced the formation of a force specifically designed to respond to this type of crime, the officers of which are to be trained by Rwandan specialists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. Two officers from Mozambique\u2019s Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) have been arrested on charges of kidnapping and fraud in Mogovolas district, Nampula province, a spokeswoman for the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has said. Enina Tsinine told a press conference that the agents kidnapped two brothers and held them captive for four days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-20844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two police officers arrested on kidnapping charges - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two officers from Mozambique\u2019s Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) have been arrested on charges of kidnapping and fraud in Mo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two police officers arrested on kidnapping charges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two officers from Mozambique\u2019s Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) have been arrested on charges of kidnapping and fraud in Mo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-08T15:27:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-08T15:34:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/06\/img-62a0c18ab999d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"553\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Two police officers arrested on kidnapping charges\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-08T15:27:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-08T15:34:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges\"},\"wordCount\":269,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/06\/img-62a0c18ab999d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/two-police-officers-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges\",\"name\":\"Two police officers arrested on kidnapping charges - 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