{"id":721044,"date":"2026-06-07T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721044\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:37:19","slug":"elevated-police-presence-in-bancroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721044\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevated police presence in Bancroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/opp-night-image.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Elevated police presence in Bancroft\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There was a major police presence in Bancroft on Saturday night as officers investigated reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Bancroft OPP descended on the area of Hastings Street North at close to 6:30 in the evening, and remained on site until just after 11 at night.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was believed to be isolated, with no larger threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>While the increased police presence has lifted, the investigation continues. Anyone with information that could help is asked to contact Bancroft OPP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; There was a major police presence in Bancroft on Saturday night as officers investigated reports of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,3732],"class_list":["post-721044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bancroft","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}