{"id":205577,"date":"2025-10-11T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:06:12","slug":"man-dies-at-merri-train-station-in-northcote-after-being-handcuffed-by-psos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205577\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies at Merri train station, in Northcote, after being handcuffed by PSOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died while handcuffed by protective services officers at a Northcote train station after acting erratically while asking them for help.<\/p>\n<p>The commuter asked the PSOs for assistance while on a train on Friday night, and he got off the train with the officers at Merri station.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The man lost consciousness and died at Merri station on Friday night, police say.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d8afd3d44137e51c25be58b64a2205456def6fe8.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The man lost consciousness and died at Merri station on Friday night, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The man appeared \u201csubstance affected\u201d and behaved erratically on the station platform, a police spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtective service officers requested an ambulance and secured handcuffs on the man due to his increasing erratic behaviour,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The man, 63, became unresponsive about 9.45pm and the officers performed CPR, but he could not be revived.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the homicide squad will investigate the man\u2019s death with oversight from the Victoria Police Professional Standards Command, as per standard practice when a person dies in police custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died while handcuffed by protective services officers at a Northcote train station after acting erratically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-205577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}