{"id":405440,"date":"2026-04-30T18:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405440\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:54:17","slug":"police-target-informal-auckland-bike-rides-after-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405440\/","title":{"rendered":"Police target informal Auckland bike rides after safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>30 Apr, 2026 06:00 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police warn they will take action against those who plan to join informal bike rides across Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Several of these rides have been organised across parts of Counties Manukau and Auckland City for weekends in May, including this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Inspector Dave Christoffersen, from Counties Manukau Police, said the events will<br \/>\n         be monitored and appropriate action will be taken against participants who don\u2019t follow road safety rules or engage in anti-social behaviour.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhere we can do so immediately we will, otherwise this will be through follow-up inquiries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRiders need to consider their behaviour and the risk they are posing to themselves and others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 30 Apr, 2026 06:00 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,432,74,9092,51,1070,10709,42,208808,19755,43,2170,675,21528,6302,199,8225,8229,7563,40,38,41,39,26697,1533],"class_list":["post-405440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-action","tag-after","tag-against","tag-auckland","tag-bike","tag-concerns","tag-headlines","tag-informal","tag-join","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-police","tag-rides","tag-safety","tag-take","tag-target","tag-they","tag-those","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warn","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405440","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=405440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}