{"id":585378,"date":"2026-08-31T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585378\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:24:10","slug":"police-officer-faces-child-indecency-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585378\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer faces child indecency charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A police officer is facing a charge of doing an indecent act on a girl aged under 12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Acting Waitemat\u0101 District Commander Acting Superintendent Matt Laurenson confirmed an officer was currently before the court on a charge linked to alleged historical offending, which occurred off duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He faced a charge of doing an indecent act on a girl under 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The matter initially came to police attention in early 2025 and was investigated, resulting in the charge being filed in October that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The constable involved was currently stood down from duty while the court process remained ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer is facing a charge of doing an indecent act on a girl aged under 12.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-585378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","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\/585378","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=585378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}