{"id":38437,"date":"2025-09-23T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38437\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:35:12","slug":"rotorua-dog-that-attacked-two-police-officers-held-in-pound-investigations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38437\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua: Dog that attacked two police officers held in pound, investigations continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police said the man was taken into custody and charged with resisting arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old was scheduled to next appear in the Rotorua District Court on October 7.<\/p>\n

Asked if police were considering further charges under the Dog Control Act relating to the attack, a police spokesperson said none had been laid \u201cat this stage\u201d. <\/p>\n

Police have said one officer required surgery and was \u201crecovering well\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other officer involved was treated for dog bite injuries but is also recovering well at home, and did not sustain serious injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bay of Plenty district commander Superintendent Tim Anderson earlier praised the officers\u2019 courage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter any injury sustained in the line of duty, police will debrief and look at how we can prevent this in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mother of the man arrested previously told the Herald the ordeal left her distressed and heartbroken about the fate of the family dog.<\/p>\n

Megan Wilson<\/a> is a health and general news reporter for the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post. She has been a journalist since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the man was taken into custody and charged with resisting arrest. The 22-year-old was scheduled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1344,682,803,9219,42,14236,78,671,35200,35199,2845,32295,43,23421,675,9211,1327,6290,1361,40,38,41,39,1237],"class_list":["post-38437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-attacked","tag-being","tag-continue","tag-dog","tag-headlines","tag-held","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-investigated","tag-investigations","tag-leaving","tag-needing","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-pound","tag-rotorua","tag-surgery","tag-that","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38437","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=38437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}