{"id":535333,"date":"2026-07-20T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:33:17","slug":"driver-accused-of-running-over-police-officers-feet-in-silverstream-upper-hutt-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535333\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver accused of running over police officer\u2019s feet in Silverstream, Upper Hutt incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">However, they tracked the vehicle\u2019s movements through police units, reports from members of the public, and CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">A police dog unit was deployed after the driver abandoned the vehicle and attempted to flee on foot, eventually being arrested just before 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">He was assessed by ambulance staff at the scene after being bitten by a police dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">The driver will face a range of charges tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">A passenger was also taken into custody at the scene of the abandoned vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">Jennings said police would like to thank members of the public for bringing the incident to a safe end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, they tracked the vehicle\u2019s movements through police units, reports from members of the public, and CCTV footage.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,74,7818,50327,1349,19552,1872,5418,133943,49947,78,671,111,43,139,69,1118,23421,1523,675,8808,157410,25448,6123],"class_list":["post-535333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accused","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-attempting","tag-court","tag-driver","tag-face","tag-feet","tag-flee","tag-hutt","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-officers","tag-over","tag-police","tag-running","tag-silverstream","tag-upper","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535333","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=535333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}