{"id":620168,"date":"2026-10-04T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620168\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:34:09","slug":"armed-police-cordon-off-dunedin-street-after-firearms-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620168\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police cordon off Dunedin street after firearms incident"},"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]\">Armed police have cordoned off a street in Dunedin and taken one person into custody after a firearms incident this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the incident on Tedder St in the suburb St Kilda was reported at about 2.50pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cArmed police are in attendance out of an abundance of caution with one person in custody,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The street is cordoned off between Bay View Rd and New St and the public was asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police have cordoned off a street in Dunedin and taken one person into custody after a firearms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,1080,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-620168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620168","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=620168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}