{"id":464940,"date":"2026-06-07T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464940\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:01:11","slug":"work-and-income-staff-member-seriously-injured-in-alleged-assault-at-albany-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464940\/","title":{"rendered":"Work and Income staff member seriously injured in alleged assault at Albany office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The source said the worker suffered serious head injuries and required medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The aftermath left staff deeply affected, according to the source, who said the office was closed the following Monday so workers could debrief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Police later located a man at a nearby shopping centre, where he was arrested, Acting Inspector Warwick Stainton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe 37-year-old man has been remanded in custody to appear in North Shore District Court on August 28 on a charge of assault with intent to injure,\u201d Stainton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">MSD regional commissioner for Auckland North and West Lynda Smardon said support was being provided to staff affected by the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cViolence towards our staff is unacceptable and our priority is ensuring the wellbeing and safety of our people,\u201d Smardon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Smardon said the agency was carrying out an internal review of the incident and had also provided support to other staff at the service centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The source said the worker suffered serious head injuries and required medical treatment. The aftermath left staff deeply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41009,1554,95,17704,1975,1550,170,78,6132,10933,104,1329,28874,111,139,69,6270,1238,23419,2552,1072,213,1516,31145,4576],"class_list":["post-464940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-albany","tag-alleged","tag-and","tag-assault","tag-at","tag-centre","tag-development","tag-in","tag-income","tag-injured","tag-injuries","tag-member","tag-ministry","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-office","tag-serious","tag-seriously","tag-service","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-staff","tag-suffered","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464940","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=464940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}