{"id":564954,"date":"2026-08-10T19:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564954\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:02:16","slug":"sunlive-police-cordon-off-tauranga-street-during-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564954\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Police cordon off Tauranga street during incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have cordoned off part of central Tauranga as they respond to an incident this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said officers were called to First Ave about 4.35pm and remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons were in place on First Ave while the incident was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no threat to public safety, however Police advise the public to avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reporter at the scene said access to First Ave from Cameron Rd had been blocked and observed officers turning people away.<\/p>\n<p>A marked police vehicle was outside Farmers, while an ambulance was parked behind the AA building on First Ave.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have cordoned off part of central Tauranga as they respond to an incident this afternoon. A police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-564954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564954","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=564954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}