{"id":354894,"date":"2026-03-30T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354894\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:27:09","slug":"man-in-custody-after-major-police-response-in-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354894\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after major police response in Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4NUDXNE_CO863_14721\" width=\"1050\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Police generic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAbout nine police cars were seen near Helensburgh Rd in Dunedin. (File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Richard Tindiller\n<\/p>\n<p>A man is in custody after a major police response in Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were told of a person acting erratically on Helensburgh St in the suburb of Wakari at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>A home was cordoned off while officers spoke with the man.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody just before 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby worker said they saw about nine police vehicles and some ambulances.<\/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":"About nine police cars were seen near Helensburgh Rd in Dunedin. (File photo) Photo: RNZ \/ Richard Tindiller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354895,"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":["post-354894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354894","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=354894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}