{"id":197176,"date":"2025-12-22T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197176\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:51:07","slug":"man-charged-with-impersonating-officer-after-joining-police-convoy-while-disqualified-and-armed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197176\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with impersonating officer after joining police convoy while disqualified and armed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt was quite the unexpected find,\u201d Armstrong said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur team is extremely pleased to be able to remove these items from our community and hold this offender to account.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old will appear in the Kaikohe District Court on January 20 on charges including personating a police officer, unlawful possession of a restricted weapon, driving while disqualified and possession of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

It comes on the same week that police revealed they had caught a drunk man who tried to pull over an unmarked car of actual police officers.<\/p>\n

Counties Manukau Police said the \u201cbizarre incident\u201d occurred while officers were conducting patrols in an unmarked vehicle<\/a> in the area on Saturday. <\/p>\n

A station wagon following the unmarked car began flashing a red-and-blue bar mounted on the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Police said officers were \u201cperplexed\u201d before clocking the car as not an actual officer.<\/p>\n

The real officers managed to pull over the man after he attempted to flee, who they said exhibited \u201cimpaired and dangerous driving\u201d, coming in at twice the legal limit.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old man will appear in the Manukau District Court on December 24 on charges of impersonating a police officer and excess breath alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was quite the unexpected find,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cOur team is extremely pleased to be able to remove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,7814,1558,15497,13239,121685,41566,21171,19552,51297,121684,296,70487,25140,5158,111,43,139,1067,69,10932,14727,71522,675,67730,13655,6861,6123,102],"class_list":["post-197176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-armed","tag-been","tag-blue","tag-charged","tag-commodore","tag-convoy","tag-disqualified","tag-driver","tag-flashing","tag-impersonating","tag-into","tag-joining","tag-lights","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-officer","tag-outside","tag-patrol","tag-police","tag-slid","tag-station","tag-vehicles","tag-while","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197176","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=197176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}