{"id":368260,"date":"2026-04-07T18:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368260\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:43:15","slug":"sunlive-firearm-sighting-sparks-police-callout-in-tauranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368260\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Firearm sighting sparks police callout in Tauranga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    \t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A report of a person with a weapon sparked a police callout in Tauranga.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Cameron Rd near Tauranga Girls\u2019 College after a firearm sighting was reported by a member of the public at 10.25am.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are now speaking with a person<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>and there is no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It comes just weeks after a person was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/lockdown-reports-parents-report-police-presence-at-tauranga-school\/DUR2BB2UBNH45GPVIMVANKIFZY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/lockdown-reports-parents-report-police-presence-at-tauranga-school\/DUR2BB2UBNH45GPVIMVANKIFZY\/\">taken into custody<\/a>\u00a0near Tauranga Girls\u2019 College on March 17 after allegedly being found with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The incident prompted a brief lockdown, with teachers rushing students inside as police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The knife was recovered by officers, and the lockdown was lifted shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A report of a person with a weapon sparked a police callout in Tauranga.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-368260","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\/368260","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=368260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}