{"id":14115,"date":"2025-06-27T17:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14115"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:21:14","slug":"budget-adds-1000-police-to-combat-crime-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14115","title":{"rendered":"Budget adds 1,000 police to combat crime, drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025\u20132026 Budget introduces a series of measures aimed at curbing drug use, HIV and crime.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad says that to tackle the growing HIV crisis fueled by drug use and needle sharing Government is allocating $10 million for a comprehensive approach to testing, prevention, public awareness, and controlling the spread of HIV.<\/p>\n

Professor Prasad says they are determined to tackle this health emergency before it becomes an uncontrollable national crisis.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKeeping Fiji safe and protecting the well-being of all Fijians is a fundamental responsibility of the Government. In recent years, the growing threat of illicit drugs, rise in criminal activity and alarming increase in HIV cases (due principally to rise in drug use) have emerged as serious challenges. These are complex social issues that need a whole of nation response. We need to tackle this head on and in a coordinated way and we call upon everyone to join us in the fight against drugs, crime and HIV.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/em>~ VIA FBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2025\u20132026 Budget introduces a series of measures aimed at curbing drug use, HIV and crime.   Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad says that to tackle the growing HIV crisis fueled by drug use and needle sharing Government is allocating $10 million for a comprehensive approach to testing, prevention, public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,175,222,208,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14117,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions\/14117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}