{"id":354615,"date":"2026-03-30T03:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354615\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:41:10","slug":"sunlive-police-arrest-30-people-at-beach-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354615\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive – Police arrest 30 people at Beach Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d by behaviour at Beach Hop in Whangamat\u0101 which led to 30 arrests.<\/p>\n

It is more arrests than in recent years at the popular annual car event.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of people attended Beach Hop this year, Eastern Waikato Area Commander Inspector Mike Henwood said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an enjoyable event which is so important for the local economy, and it was run really well with participants and attendees having a great time and mostly behaving themselves,\u201d Henwood said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, some of the people attracted to the event<\/a> caused some issues for police later in the night.”<\/p>\n

Police arrested 30 people in relation to fighting in a public place and disorderly behaviour.<\/p>\n

They also issued around 40 liquor-ban infringement notices.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the amount of people blatantly ignoring the longstanding liquor ban in the area is similar to recent years, the number of arrests is considerably higher,\u201d Henwood said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is extremely disappointing that the behaviour of some people required us to make arrests, issue tickets, and deal with drink drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was an increased police presence carrying out foot patrols and checkpoints in the area.<\/p>\n

Police breath-tested over 3000 drivers over the weekend. They found 11 drivers had excess breath alcohol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage those attending these types of events to have fun, but in a safe and lawful manner,\u201d Henwood said.<\/p>\n

The police encourage members of the public to report unlawful or antisocial behaviour by calling 111 or 105 if it is non-urgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d by behaviour at Beach Hop in Whangamat\u0101 which led to 30 arrests. It is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-354615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354615","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=354615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}