{"id":657439,"date":"2026-11-11T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/657439\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:12:11","slug":"two-gunshots-fired-at-napier-police-after-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/657439\/","title":{"rendered":"Two gunshots fired at Napier police after pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFortunately, neither of our officers were injured and the patrol vehicle did not sustain any damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some hours later the vehicle was detected travelling north on the Waikato Expressway towards Auckland. It was later located at an address in Manurewa where it was seized. <\/p>\n

Lamb said occupants of the address were helping police with enquiries.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresenting a firearm at a police officer is a serious escalation that puts our staff and the wider community at risk. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis behaviour is entirely unacceptable. We are taking this incident extremely seriously and will be pursuing all lines of enquiry to locate the offender and hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officers in Counties Manukau were helping with the investigation.<\/p>\n

Police are asking any witnesses to Tuesday\u2019s incident to come forward.<\/p>\n

You can contact Police on 105 or provide information online using the reference number 261111\/3764. Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFortunately, neither of our officers were injured and the patrol vehicle did not sustain any damage.\u201d Some hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1975,15969,15226,26663,96995,42,12898,3607,43,675,85522,40,38,41,39,17251,1237,58455],"class_list":["post-657439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-at","tag-discharged","tag-firearm","tag-fired","tag-gunshots","tag-headlines","tag-investigation","tag-napier","tag-news","tag-police","tag-pursuit","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-twice","tag-two","tag-underway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657439","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=657439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}