{"id":174926,"date":"2025-12-09T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:12:08","slug":"police-swarming-highway-between-whakamarama-and-katikati-readers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174926\/","title":{"rendered":"Police swarming highway between Whakamarama and Katikati, readers report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>9 Dec, 2025 02:04 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Several readers have told SunLive they have seen several police vehicles on State Highway 2, between Whakamarama and Katikati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A large police presence is being reported in the Western Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Several readers have contacted NZME to say they have seen several police vehicles on State Highway 2, between Whakamarama and Katikati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         One reader said she received a phone call from her husband saying he had seen officers<br \/>\n         hiding in the bush.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Another person said they had just driven from Katikati to Whakamarama and passed 12 officers, some with car lights on and some with road spike strips out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSounds like something big could be going down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 9 Dec, 2025 02:04 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,682,5432,26755,87327,3242,111,43,139,69,1562,675,4494,6289,1560,15267,112369,3457,112370],"class_list":["post-174926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-being","tag-between","tag-highway","tag-katikati","tag-large","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plenty","tag-police","tag-presence","tag-readers","tag-report","tag-reported","tag-swarming","tag-western","tag-whakamarama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174926","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=174926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}