{"id":528212,"date":"2026-07-16T01:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528212\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:27:14","slug":"emergency-services-called-to-an-incident-outside-palmerston-north-district-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528212\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services called to an incident outside Palmerston North District Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe was in recovery position.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A man was taken by ambulance following an alleged incident outside the Palmerston North District Court. Photo \/ Samuel Sijm \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A man was taken by ambulance following an alleged incident outside the Palmerston North District Court. Photo \/ Samuel Sijm <\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBystanders were understandably shook [sic] but there was still quite a lot of commotion and interest from the public.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Police, St John Ambulance and the Ministry of Justice have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Brianna McIlraith is a Queenstown-based reporter for Open Justice covering courts in the lower South Island. She has been a journalist since 2018 and has had a strong interest in business and financial journalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Join NZ Herald\u2019s Open Justice team for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1049-case-by-case-338673756\/?pname=nzh_web&amp;sc=podcast_show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1049-case-by-case-338673756\/\" target=\"_blank\">Case by Case<\/a>, a video and podcast series examining the disputes and decisions making headlines across New Zealand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe was in recovery position. A man was taken by ambulance following an alleged incident outside the Palmerston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8831,1559,1349,7557,15974,671,111,43,139,529,69,14727,6292,1321,61],"class_list":["post-528212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-an","tag-called","tag-court","tag-district","tag-emergency","tag-incident","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-outside","tag-palmerston","tag-services","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528212","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=528212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}