{"id":458060,"date":"2026-06-03T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458060\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:55:08","slug":"tauranga-man-dies-after-police-taser-incident-investigation-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458060\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga: Man dies after police taser incident, investigation launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA Taser and OC (Oleoresin Capsicum) spray were deployed during the arrest,\u201d Loughrin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">The man was then transported to the Tauranga police station, where he became unresponsive during the journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Loughrin said police requested medical assistance immediately, with an ambulance dispatched at about 12.42am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Officers began CPR before ambulance staff took over on arrival.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Bay of Plenty district commander Superintendent Will Loughrin. Photo \/ Mike Scott \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Bay of Plenty district commander Superintendent Will Loughrin. Photo \/ Mike Scott <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Loughrin said the man was pronounced dead shortly before 1.45am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Police notified the man\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Loughrin said a critical incident investigation had been launched, and the Independent Police Conduct Authority had been notified, which was standard procedure in cases of this nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">WorkSafe had also been advised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Police said a number of inquiries were underway to determine the exact circumstances leading up to the man\u2019s death, with scene examinations continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA Taser and OC (Oleoresin Capsicum) spray were deployed during the arrest,\u201d Loughrin said. The man was then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7126,671,12898,1743,5158,111,43,139,69,675,184627,1227],"class_list":["post-458060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-dies","tag-incident","tag-investigation","tag-launched","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-taser","tag-tauranga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458060","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=458060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}