{"id":378607,"date":"2026-04-14T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:33:07","slug":"police-investigating-after-six-hato-hone-st-john-ambulances-damaged-in-south-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378607\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating after six Hato Hone St John ambulances damaged in South Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are keeping an open mind as to whether these two events are linked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis sort of offending is extremely reckless, given the ambulances were rendered inoperable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s thoughtless and risks the lives of anyone who required urgent medical care during the period that ambulances were out of action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">St John staff in Manukau first noticed the damage when trying to respond to a priority job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">St John acting Auckland district operations manager Angela Jardine said damaging ambulances is a serious and unacceptable act that directly affects the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAmbulances are a critical part of the emergency response system,\u201d Jardine said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen vehicles are taken out of service, it has the potential to delay care for patients who need urgent medical help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur people come to work to care for others, and incidents like this are incredibly frustrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are working closely with police and urge anyone with information to please come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">Hayward said there would be people in the community who know who is responsible and he urged them \u201cto do the right thing\u201d and contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Manukau station: offending occurred overnight between February 28 and March 1.\u014ct\u0101huhu station: offending occurred overnight between April 8 and 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone with information can update police online now at 105.police.govt.nz or call 105, using the reference number 260409\/0402.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">Information can also be reported anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are keeping an open mind as to whether these two events are linked. \u201cThis sort of offending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,174675,51,682,17153,15976,15977,78,10116,17709,5126,111,43,139,69,675,4739,1240,11420,1458],"class_list":{"0":"post-378607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-ambulances","10":"tag-auckland","11":"tag-being","12":"tag-damaged","13":"tag-hato","14":"tag-hone","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-incidents","17":"tag-investigating","18":"tag-john","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-police","24":"tag-six","25":"tag-south","26":"tag-st","27":"tag-targeted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378607","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=378607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}