{"id":129729,"date":"2025-11-11T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129729\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:16:15","slug":"sas-forces-used-in-search-for-fugitive-father-tom-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129729\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS forces used in search for fugitive father Tom Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tphilpscamp.jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"653\" alt=\"One of the campsites Tom Phillips lived in with his children. Photo: RNZ \/ Supplied \/ Police\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One of the campsites Tom Phillips lived in with his children. Photo: RNZ \/ Supplied \/ Police<\/p>\n<p>The military has confirmed members of its elite special forces were used to search for fugitive father Tom Phillips and his children.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips was shot by police on September 8 &#8211; four years after he disappeared in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The defence force has confirmed members of the SAS were involved in the search for Phillips and his children on three occasions.<\/p>\n<p>It said the service usually operated overseas, but in this case it was cleared to help Police.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Herald\u00a0reported that up to four SAS members &#8211; including expert trackers &#8211; helped police search for the family in remote Waikato bush in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/578442\/sas-forces-used-in-search-for-fugitive-father-tom-phillips-military-confirms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rnz_banner_rs_060825.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the campsites Tom Phillips lived in with his children. Photo: RNZ \/ Supplied \/ Police The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-129729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}