{"id":585424,"date":"2026-08-31T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585424\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:36:08","slug":"taradale-armed-police-close-road-after-driver-flees-vehicle-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585424\/","title":{"rendered":"Taradale: Armed police close road after driver flees vehicle stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The driver had fled towards Taradale, with officers locating the vehicle on Windsor Tce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Police were armed as a precaution, with cordons in place as inquiries were made to locate the driver with a dog unit, Rowden said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPublic can expect to see an increased presence in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">More information would be provided when available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Windsor Tce is a dead-end cul-de-sac intersecting Meeanee Rd, near several schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver had fled towards Taradale, with officers locating the vehicle on Windsor Tce. Police were armed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7814,651,5201,19552,1866,15037,19553,3607,111,43,139,69,23421,675,1314,1324,85464,13920,6845],"class_list":["post-585424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-armed","tag-close","tag-closed","tag-driver","tag-find","tag-fleeing","tag-flees","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-road","tag-stop","tag-taradale","tag-tried","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585424","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=585424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}