{"id":355117,"date":"2026-03-30T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:04:10","slug":"police-looking-for-man-approaching-young-children-in-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355117\/","title":{"rendered":"Police looking for man \u2018approaching\u2019 young children in Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>30 Mar, 2026 04:35 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police said the information provided in the report was being assessed and inquiries were ongoing. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are looking for a man who has been reportedly approaching young children over the last month in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reassurance patrols have been placed near the corner of Mt Albert Rd and Volga St, where the matters were reported to have happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said the information provided in<br \/>\n         the report was being assessed and inquiries were ongoing.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe understand incidents like this can be unsettling to the community; however, we ask parents to be alert, not alarmed,\u201d Wellington Area Prevention Manager Inspector Jason McCarthy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 30 Mar, 2026 04:35 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38119,1061,2082,78,19133,5158,111,43,139,69,675,52,4741],"class_list":["post-355117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-approaching","tag-children","tag-for","tag-in","tag-looking","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-wellington","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355117","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=355117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}