{"id":632397,"date":"2026-10-16T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632397\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:22:11","slug":"rugby-league-world-cup-police-warn-fans-to-celebrate-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632397\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League World Cup: Police warn fans to celebrate safely"},"content":{"rendered":"

During celebrations in 2022, police were called to several incidents involving vehicles.<\/p>\n

One person was seriously injured after they slid off a moving car they were sitting on and were run over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the 2017 World Cup, six people were arrested after a brawl involving about 200 Samoan and Tongan supporters in an \u014ctara carpark. Disorder had also been reported in \u014ct\u0101huhu and M\u0101ngere.<\/p>\n

The incidents occurred despite several calls from community and religious leaders<\/a> and Cabinet ministers to keep the peace.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice are asking league fans not to block streets or hang from cars during this year’s Rugby League World Cup. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n

Fans are asked not to block streets or stop traffic, which could prevent access for emergency services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to minimise disruption and ensure celebrations can be enjoyed safely by everyone,\u201d Whiu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook after each other and those around you, whether you\u2019re inside or outside of a vehicle.\u201d <\/p>\n

The cup, being hosted in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, kicked off yesterday and runs until November 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During celebrations in 2022, police were called to several incidents involving vehicles. One person was seriously injured after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177,10542,9517,14731,111,139,69,675,310103,6327,96261,213,61,58455,26697,1455,102,377],"class_list":["post-632397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-celebrate","tag-cup","tag-fans","tag-league","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-respectfully","tag-rugby","tag-safely","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-underway","tag-warn","tag-warning","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632397","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=632397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}