{"id":387762,"date":"2026-04-19T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:10:10","slug":"not-an-unusual-tactic-otago-daily-times-online-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387762\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not an unusual tactic\u2019 | Otago Daily Times Online News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer conducting breath testing in Dunedin\u2019s Lower Stuart St yesterday was trying to catch people avoiding a checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told the\u00a0Otago Daily Times\u00a0they thought it was unusual to see an officer conducting breath tests alone and in what they felt was a &#8220;dangerous&#8221; spot so close to an intersection with State Highway 1.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said a full checkpoint was set up near Toit\u016b Otago Settlers Museum and officers noticed some vehicles taking an alternative route, which police felt might be an attempt to avoid the checkpoint ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An officer was stationed near the courthouse to ensure those vehicles were also tested,&#8221; the spokeswoman said. &#8220;This is not an unusual tactic to deploy during such an operation.&#8221; \u2014 Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer conducting breath testing in Dunedin\u2019s Lower Stuart St yesterday was trying to catch people avoiding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-387762","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\/387762","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=387762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}