{"id":389611,"date":"2026-04-21T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:47:09","slug":"threatening-behaviour-armed-police-swoop-on-dunedin-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389611\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Threatening behaviour&#8217;: Armed police swoop on Dunedin property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1252794126916031248.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Armed police in Lancefield St. Photo: Tim Scott\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Armed police in Lancefield St. Photo: Tim Scott<\/p>\n<p>Police are now speaking to someone after armed officers responding to a report of threatening behaviour swooped on a Dunedin address.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing to indicate anyone was injured in the incident, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Three police cars and armed officers are blocking Sydney St in Caversham.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was unfolding in the adjoining Lancefield St.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000002673.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Police in Sydney St. Photo: Tim Scott\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police in Sydney St. Photo: Tim Scott<\/p>\n<p>Road spikes had been brought out at the top of Lancefield Sr.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are responding to a report of threatening behaviour at a residential property in Balaclava,&#8221; a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the address at 10.52am, a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police in Lancefield St. Photo: Tim Scott Police are now speaking to someone after armed officers responding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-389611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389611","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=389611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}