{"id":79,"date":"2009-12-29T00:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2017-05-27T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T20:13:58","slug":"camps-bay-beach-safety-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/beach-news\/camps-bay-beach-safety-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Camps Bay beach safety focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/campsbaybeach2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-83\" title=\"campsbaybeach2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/campsbaybeach2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/campsbaybeach2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/campsbaybeach2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City of Cape Town law enforcement staff are focusing heavily on the City&#8217;s Blue Flag beaches, of which Camps Bay is one, to keep them free of alcohol.\u00a0\u00a0 One is not allowed to drink alcohol on Cape Town&#8217;s beaches, according to a city by-law.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400 law enforcement officers have been deployed at the Blue Flag beaches of Clifton 4th Beach\u00a0, Camps Bay, Mnandi, Bikini Beach, Muizenberg and Strandfontein, reports the <strong>Cape Times<\/strong>.\u00a0 They are issuing fines and confiscating alcohol on the beaches.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 26 December, a beach day traditionally popular with township and Cape Flats residents,\u00a024 000 persons\u00a0are estimated to have been on the Camps Bay beach area, despite cool weather.\u00a0 On that day, 234 bottles of alcohol were confiscated and 74 fines were issued.\u00a0\u00a0 More than half the restaurants closed in Camps Bay on this day.\u00a0 Similar influxes to Camps Bay are expected on 1 and 2\u00a0January.<\/p>\n<p>It is good to see that Metro officials are very visible in Camps Bay, with ticket book in hand, to fine illegal parkers outside Pick &#8216;n Pay, and in other areas with red no-parking lines.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Cape Town law enforcement staff are focusing heavily on the City&#8217;s Blue Flag beaches, of which Camps Bay is one, to keep them free of alcohol.\u00a0\u00a0 One is not allowed to drink alcohol on Cape Town&#8217;s beaches, according to a city by-law. More than 400 law enforcement officers have been deployed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}