{"id":302468,"date":"2026-02-26T03:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:35:15","slug":"luxon-makes-law-and-order-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302468\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxon makes law and order announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking about violent crime figures at a media conference in central Auckland this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He will be joined by Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith and Police Minister Mark Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Government, the latest New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey showed 49,000 fewer victims of violent crime in the year to October 2025 than two years previously. <\/p>\n<p>Police are also launching a new so-called beat team in Hamilton this week, the latest in 12 such teams set up nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference is due to start around 1.30pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking about violent crime figures at a media conference in central Auckland this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,11508,67,42,43,135,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-302468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-christopher-luxon","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302468","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=302468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}