{"id":491133,"date":"2026-06-23T07:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491133\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:05:10","slug":"police-officer-fined-after-watching-state-of-origin-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491133\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer fined after watching State of Origin while driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">The driver was also issued an infringement notice for distracted driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Counties Manukau Central Police Inspector MinHo Lee said police acknowledge the public\u2019s concern about the incident and apologise for the officer\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe want to be clear that police officers must role model safe behaviour on our roads and they should lead by example,\u201d Lee said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are committed to maintaining the high standards our communities rightly expect of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver was also issued an infringement notice for distracted driving. Counties Manukau Central Police Inspector MinHo Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,3378,1558,168891,4189,19631,42,43,1118,10932,23421,49754,675,1305,13672,40,38,41,39,416,5143,65508,6123],"class_list":["post-491133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-appeared","tag-been","tag-distracted","tag-driving","tag-fined","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-of","tag-officer","tag-officers","tag-origin","tag-police","tag-show","tag-state","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-video","tag-viral","tag-watching","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491133","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=491133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}