{"id":210939,"date":"2026-01-01T02:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:48:06","slug":"new-years-eve-arrests-and-callouts-police-and-st-john-report-quiet-night-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210939\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Eve arrests and callouts: Police and St John report quiet night overall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The spokesperson said the atmosphere was positive and the crowd was generally well-behaved, with 12 arrests and some liquor ban infringements.<\/p>\n

\"StSt John national deputy chief executive of ambulance operations Dan Ohs. Photo \/ George Heard<\/p>\n

Deputy chief executive of St John ambulance operations, Dan Ohs, told RNZ the ambulance service responded to 177 incidents between 10pm and 3am, about 40% down on previous years.<\/p>\n

He said the workload was busiest across the Western Bay of Plenty and Auckland areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, overnight we have had some reports of our staff being abused at callouts, including one significant incident in Auckland<\/a> where our staff were quite significantly abused.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the fire service callouts in the Bay of Plenty overnight, firefighters attended several structure fires and a serious-injury crash in Te Puke, which was reported about 5pm yesterday.<\/p>\n

\"EmergencyEmergency crews attended several structure fires in the Bay of Plenty on New Year’s Eve. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency New Zealand northern shift manager Josh Pennefather said two fire crews from Te Puke attended a two-vehicle crash on Te Puke Quarry Rd, near Jellicoe St.<\/p>\n

Pennefather said the sole occupant of a car was trapped inside the vehicle after hitting a tree.<\/p>\n

One person with serious injuries and two others with moderate injuries were taken to Tauranga Hospital, and the fire crews left the scene at 6.16pm, he said.<\/p>\n

A police spokeswoman said the road was blocked for some time, and the police left the crash scene at 8.30pm. The cause of the crash was still being investigated.<\/p>\n

Pennefather said about 8pm last night, two fire crews from \u014cp\u014dtiki and one from \u014chope attended a building fire on a semi-rural residential property on Ohiwa Harbour Rd, Waiotahe, west of \u014cp\u014dtiki.<\/p>\n

He said it was unclear whether the 8m by 7m building was being used as a shed or a dwelling, but the fire was well-involved and the building was destroyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 20 locals with garden hoses helped the firefighters to put the fire out, and one person, who suffered minor burns, received first aid from two nurses at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pennefather said about the same time, there was a report of another building fire at a property on Tomalin Rd in Putaruru.<\/p>\n

He said firefighters found a small electrical fire involving a switch on a powerboard that was connected to a house, and isolated the power, leaving it to the power company to deal with.<\/p>\n

Sandra Conchie<\/a> is a senior journalist at the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post who has been a journalist for 25 years. She mainly covers police, court and other justice stories, as well as general news. She has been a Canon Media Awards regional\/community reporter of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spokesperson said the atmosphere was positive and the crowd was generally well-behaved, with 12 arrests and some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,12635,665,31746,57377,75031,2841,6461,671,8454,5126,661,117,111,43,139,2551,69,428,34540,1562,675,28142,1560,11420,1227,3457,102,1339,1530],"class_list":["post-210939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-area","tag-around","tag-arrests","tag-callouts","tag-celebrations","tag-country","tag-eve","tag-incident","tag-including","tag-john","tag-major","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-overall","tag-passed","tag-plenty","tag-police","tag-quiet","tag-report","tag-st","tag-tauranga","tag-western","tag-with","tag-without","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210939","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=210939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}