{"id":145501,"date":"2025-11-20T23:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145501\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:31:07","slug":"college-daycare-medical-centre-in-lockdown-in-katikati-bay-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145501\/","title":{"rendered":"College, daycare, medical centre in lockdown in Katikati, Bay of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAll children are safe and accounted for. Awaiting instructions from police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cParents were asked not to call or come to the school, and check Facebook for updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesman confirmed they were making inquiries to locate a person of interest in Katikati.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Armed police at the intersection of Beach Rd and Park Rd in Katikati.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Armed police at the intersection of Beach Rd and Park Rd in Katikati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Robin\u2019s Nest early childcare centre told the Bay of Plenty Times it was in lockdown at the request of police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">A caller to SunLive said police had cordoned off Beach Rd and armed officers were \u201cstanding guard\u201d at the Polley Cres and Park Rd intersections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Traffic was being diverted around those streets, the caller said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Katikati Medical Centre said on its Facebook page that it had been directed by police to go into lockdown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe ask that people stay away for the time being and we will update when we have further information. While this is in place we kindly ask that people refrain from phoning the practice unless necessary at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">More to come <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAll children are safe and accounted for. Awaiting instructions from police. \u201cParents were asked not to call or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7814,1561,1550,12784,85768,10937,78,12469,87327,28360,3523,111,43,139,69,1118,4056,1562,675,6649,2951],"class_list":["post-145501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-armed","tag-bay","tag-centre","tag-college","tag-daycare","tag-hunt","tag-in","tag-interest","tag-katikati","tag-lockdown","tag-medical","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-person","tag-plenty","tag-police","tag-schools","tag-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145501","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=145501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}