{"id":406133,"date":"2026-05-01T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:40:08","slug":"traffic-delays-expected-as-tauranga-police-operation-runs-near-otumoetai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406133\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic delays expected as Tauranga police operation runs near Ot\u016bmoetai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police on Cambridge Rd, near the intersection of Waihi and Otumoetai roads. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

A police operation in the Ot\u016bmoetai area may cause traffic delays, parents picking up children from schools are being warned.<\/p>\n

\n Letters sent to parents from Ot\u016bmoetai Intermediate and Ot\u016bmoetai College say police are conducting an operation in the area this afternoon that \u201cmay cause traffic delays for parents collecting children
\n from school\u201d.\n <\/p>\n

Schools have advised that increased congestion is possible, particularly around the Cambridge Rd\/Waih\u012b Rd\/Ot\u016bmoetai Rd roundabout.<\/p>\n

A woman in the area, who did not want to be named, said: \u201cpolice were gearing up on Cambridge Rd with balaclavas and helmets\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said there were four police cars at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 1 May, 2026 03:05 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12635,806,682,25346,1061,16492,5346,71,3180,111,43,139,69,17286,181529,3766,60725,675,15556,6649,1227,3946,8222],"class_list":["post-406133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-area","tag-as","tag-being","tag-cause","tag-children","tag-delays","tag-expected","tag-from","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-otmoetai","tag-parents","tag-picking","tag-police","tag-runs","tag-schools","tag-tauranga","tag-traffic","tag-warned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406133","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=406133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}