{"id":175500,"date":"2025-12-09T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/175500\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:08:12","slug":"sunlive-large-police-presence-on-sh2-western-bay-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/175500\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Large police presence on SH2 Western Bay of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large police presence is being reported in the Western Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Several readers have contacted SunLive to say they have seen several police vehicles on State Highway 2, between Whakamarama and Katikati.<\/p>\n<p>One reader said she received a phone call from her husband saying he had seen officers hiding in the bush.<\/p>\n<p>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>\u201cSounds like something big could be going down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said officers were conducting routine enquiries to locate \u201cperson of interest\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large police presence is being reported in the Western Bay of Plenty. Several readers have contacted SunLive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-175500","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175500","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=175500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}