{"id":574218,"date":"2026-08-19T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:38:12","slug":"multiple-memorial-plaques-stolen-from-central-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574218\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple memorial plaques stolen from central Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several brass memorial plaques have stolen from central Christchurch \u2013 with police issuing a photograph of someone who may be able to help solve the crimes. <\/p>\n<p>Christchurch Metro Commander Superintendent Lane Todd said the thefts occurred sometime overnight on Tuesday, August 11 and Wednesday, August 12.<\/p>\n<p>Todd appealed for public information on the plaques removal from the Latimer Square and the Bridge of Remembrance areas. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/police-were-keen-to-speak-with-the-man-pictured-2OJ64RTHKVH7FEJTKKMQ6N6WWQ.jpg\" alt=\"Police were keen to speak with the man pictured. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Police were keen to speak with the man pictured.  (Source: Police)<\/p>\n<p>He said police were keen to speak with a man pictured \u2013 or anyone who might know the man \u2013 as they may be able to help with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this is you, or if you know who this person is, please get in touch,&#8221; Todd said.<\/p>\n<p>Police also hoped to speak to anyone in the affected areas on those nights, or who may have CCTV, dashcam footage, or information about the whereabouts of the plaques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several brass memorial plaques have stolen from central Christchurch \u2013 with police issuing a photograph of someone who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-574218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574218","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=574218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}