{"id":251721,"date":"2026-01-26T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:19:09","slug":"police-close-wellingtons-lambton-quay-over-item-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251721\/","title":{"rendered":"Police close Wellington&#8217;s Lambton Quay over &#8216;item of concern&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JU77VZ_Image_3_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Police shut down part of Wellington's Lambton Quay after an &quot;item of concern&quot; was found.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice shut down part of Wellington&#8217;s Lambton Quay after an &#8220;item of concern&#8221; was found.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Pretoria Gordon\n<\/p>\n<p>Wellington&#8217;s Lambton Quay was closed for about an hour on Monday after an item of concern was found.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the area near Brandon Street about 11.20am.<\/p>\n<p>The road had reopened by about 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons were put in place, and were removed when the item was confirmed as safe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police shut down part of Wellington&#8217;s Lambton Quay after an &#8220;item of concern&#8221; was found. Photo: RNZ \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-251721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251721","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=251721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}