A police officer’s feet were run over and a patrol car rammed by a stolen vehicle in Upper Hutt this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Hutt Valley Area Commander Inspector Wade Jennings said officers found a stolen vehicle in Silverstream around 3.10pm.<\/p>\n
During an interaction, the driver allegedly ran over an officer’s feet and rammed a police vehicle, Jennings said.<\/p>\n
The incident led to “minor injuries to the officer and significant damage to the police vehicle”.<\/p>\n
The driver then fled the scene.<\/p>\n
Jennings said, due to the manner of driving, police did not initiate a pursuit. <\/p>\n
“Instead, staff maintained observation of the vehicle using a combination of police units, updates from members of the public, and CCTV footage,” he said.<\/p>\n
The driver later abandoned the vehicle and made off on foot. A passenger was taken into custody at the scene.”<\/p>\n
The driver was tracked by a police dog and arrested shortly before 4pm.<\/p>\n
He was assessed by ambulance staff after sustaining a dog bite during the arrest. <\/p>\n
“Police would like to thank members of the public who provided information and observations, helping bring the incident to a safe conclusion.”<\/p>\n
The driver is due to appear in court tomorrow on a range of charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer’s feet were run over and a patrol car rammed by a stolen vehicle in Upper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-534881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534881","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=534881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}