{"id":483215,"date":"2026-06-18T06:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483215\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:57:10","slug":"person-taken-into-custody-on-christchurchs-stanmore-rd-after-armed-police-callout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483215\/","title":{"rendered":"Person taken into custody on Christchurch\u2019s Stanmore Rd after armed police callout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Ellison said officers are now speaking with the person to establish exactly what has happened.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Armed police responding to the incident. Photo \/ Anna Heath\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Armed police responding to the incident. Photo \/ Anna Heath<img  alt=\"Police are keeping people away from the area. Photo \/ Anna Heath\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police are keeping people away from the area. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">During the initial response, police officers could be seen carrying firearms on the corner of Armagh St and outside a property on nearby Stanmore Rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Several police units were in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Members of the public were being diverted from the area as police told them it was \u201cnot safe\u201d to go to Stanmore Rd.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Several police units are in attendance. Photo \/ Anna Heath. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Several police units are in attendance. Photo \/ Anna Heath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it was notified about the incident shortly after 11am.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A spokesperson said: \u201cPolice are to working to establish what exactly has occurred\u201d. Photo \/ Anna Heath\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A spokesperson said: \u201cPolice are to working to establish what exactly has occurred\u201d. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">An ambulance and operations manager responded to the scene but were not required to treat or assess anyone, Hato Hone St John said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellison said officers are now speaking with the person to establish exactly what has happened. Armed police responding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7814,1558,15223,1853,4487,50545,11928,29059,305,10933,296,111,43,139,69,90,4056,675,2642,15267,23419,88451,5424,19554,16963,102],"class_list":["post-483215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-armed","tag-been","tag-callout","tag-central","tag-christchurch","tag-christchurchs","tag-custody","tag-descended","tag-have","tag-injured","tag-into","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-person","tag-police","tag-rd","tag-reported","tag-seriously","tag-stanmore","tag-street","tag-taken","tag-weapon","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483215","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=483215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}