{"id":355050,"date":"2026-03-30T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355050\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:52:16","slug":"man-in-custody-after-armed-police-callout-on-helensburgh-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355050\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after armed police callout on Helensburgh Rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in custody after armed police were called out to a Dunedin hill suburb this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were alerted to a man behaving erratically on Helensburgh Rd, near the intersection with Taieri Rd, about 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the street was cordoned off while officers spoke with the man. He was taken into custody about 7.25pm.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6538.jpg\" width=\"2112\" height=\"1056\" alt=\"Police at the scene on Monday evening. Photo: Craig Baxter\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police at the scene on Monday evening. Photo: Craig Baxter<\/p>\n<p>An Otago Daily Times photographer at the scene earlier said up to eight police units were visible and there were several armed officers present.<\/p>\n<p>A St John ambulance was also at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said they thanked the community for their understanding while the incident was resolved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_1128.jpg\" width=\"1332\" height=\"999\" alt=\"Police at the scene on Monday evening. Photo: Gregor Richardson\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police at the scene on Monday evening. Photo: Gregor Richardson<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody after armed police were called out to a Dunedin hill suburb this evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-355050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355050","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=355050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}