{"id":447095,"date":"2026-05-27T03:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447095\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:07:09","slug":"wintec-campuses-closed-after-potential-security-threat-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447095\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintec campuses closed after potential security threat reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">An update on when classes are to resume and when campuses are to reopen is expected later today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said they hoped to reopen the campuses later this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">In a social media post, the institute said it had notified students and staff to leave campus buildings promptly and calmly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe safety of our students and staff is Wintec\u2019s priority, and is why we have taken this decision to close campuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will provide updates when more information becomes available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">Students and staff received an email and phone alert around 11.25am saying all classes had been cancelled for today because of  a potential security threat affecting campus premises. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">People were asked to take their belongings and vehicles and leave promptly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson said the incident was related to a recent series of bomb threats sent to organisations around New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An update on when classes are to resume and when campuses are to reopen is expected later today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,17517,39181,17161,5201,6288,111,43,139,69,6046,15267,2437,18988,1555,227930],"class_list":["post-447095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-because","tag-campus","tag-campuses","tag-closed","tag-hamilton","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-potential","tag-reported","tag-security","tag-sites","tag-threat","tag-wintec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447095","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=447095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}