{"id":527419,"date":"2026-07-15T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:23:12","slug":"hawkes-bay-officer-kept-on-duty-after-144km-h-unauthorised-chase-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527419\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke\u2019s Bay officer kept on duty after 144km\/h unauthorised chase crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">However, the pursuit continued into a residential area, with the officer\u2019s partner again asking to abandon the pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">This request was again ignored as the dirt bike rode on to the footpath and entered a park via its pedestrian entrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">At this point, the officer braked suddenly, lost control of the patrol car and crashed into parked cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">The investigation included an examination of the patrol car data, which showed that before the collision, the patrol car was travelling at 144km\/h in the 50km\/h residential zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Police charged the officer with dangerous driving,  to which the officer pleaded guilty and was convicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Eastern District Commander Superintendent Joel Lamb said the officer was still employed with the police, \u201cfollowing a confidential employment process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe hold our people to a high standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">In a statement, the IPCA said it was satisfied with the outcome of police investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the pursuit continued into a residential area, with the officer\u2019s partner again asking to abandon the pursuit.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[260643,74,1561,9436,3549,20496,127,98,5760,1976,42,20558,50371,43,10932,90,675,10715,25093,40,38,41,39,27561,23849],"class_list":["post-527419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-144kmh","tag-after","tag-bay","tag-chase","tag-crash","tag-crashing","tag-despite","tag-duty","tag-force","tag-hawkes","tag-headlines","tag-kept","tag-limit","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-on","tag-police","tag-remains","tag-speed","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-triple","tag-unauthorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527419","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=527419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}