{"id":47792,"date":"2025-09-28T06:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47792\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:28:07","slug":"police-shoot-at-man-brandishing-large-bladed-weapon-in-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47792\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot at man brandishing \u2018large bladed weapon\u2019 in Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Police deployed pepper spray on arrival. The man then retreated to a room in the house and refused to come out, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Wellington District Commander Superintendent Corrie Parnell said, it \u201cwas a fast-moving situation involving a volatile offender\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are fortunate this incident was resolved with no injury to our staff or members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Police have described the victims of the burglary as \u201cvery traumatised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">A scene examination is being carried out at the address, and the public can expect to see an increased police presence in the area, said police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The matter will be referred to the Independent Police Conduct Authority, as is standard procedure for incidents of this nature, said police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Charges are being considered, they said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police deployed pepper spray on arrival. The man then retreated to a room in the house and refused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,7818,11924,1975,41639,41638,34464,305,42,78,3242,5158,43,41640,675,814,41637,10117,18937,40,38,41,39,16963,52,102],"class_list":["post-47792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-at","tag-bladed","tag-brandishing","tag-entered","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-large","tag-man","tag-news","tag-occupants","tag-police","tag-property","tag-shoot","tag-shot","tag-threatened","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weapon","tag-wellington","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47792","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=47792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}