Police are making inquiries into both incidents, including working to identify and locate the alleged offenders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese alleged offenders are engaging with people on these apps with the intention of meeting them in quiet areas at night-time to attack them,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only are they taking advantage of people\u2019s trust, but they are planning these attacks with the intention to seriously injure these people.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge anybody who is planning to meet someone from a dating app to choose a location which is public, or well-lit at night, as well as letting someone trusted know your plans and movements.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police are keen to hear from anybody who has information regarding these assaults, or anyone who was in the Queens Park area between 6pm and 4am from Friday, May 8 to Sunday, May 10.<\/p>\n
Information can be reported to police via 105, either over the phone or online. People should reference the file number 260510\/6480.<\/p>\n
Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are making inquiries into both incidents, including working to identify and locate the alleged offenders. \u201cThese alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,2724,217089,32034,13119,682,1862,78,10116,217090,111,43,139,69,1642,8143,4517,384,675,69656,51519,15488,2069,16742,26951,26697,8222,686,3608],"class_list":["post-423086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-app","tag-arranging","tag-assaulted","tag-assaults","tag-being","tag-dating","tag-in","tag-incidents","tag-meetups","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-park","tag-past","tag-people","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-separate","tag-southland","tag-stay","tag-users","tag-vigilant","tag-warn","tag-warned","tag-week","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423086","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=423086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}