{"id":32204,"date":"2025-09-19T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32204\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:09:07","slug":"rotorua-police-officer-undergoes-surgery-after-dog-attack-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32204\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua police officer undergoes surgery after dog attack during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe two staff members went through to hospital for treatment. One of them required surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cObviously this is a distressing incident for both them and their colleagues, and they are receiving all available support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of the bravery of our staff, particularly the courage shown by the second officer, who jumped in to stop his colleague being attacked even further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAfter any injury sustained in the line of duty, Police will debrief and look at how we can prevent this in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Animal control has been advised and has uplifted the animal involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe two staff members went through to hospital for treatment. One of them required surgery. \u201cObviously this is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,14466,89,1344,9219,2837,685,2845,111,43,139,2551,69,10932,23421,675,29511,1327,2838,6290,19054,30647,20424,1316],"class_list":["post-32204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-attacked","tag-dog","tag-during","tag-last","tag-leaving","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-officer","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-requiring","tag-rotorua","tag-routine","tag-surgery","tag-turned","tag-undergoes","tag-violent","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204","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=32204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}