{"id":326907,"date":"2025-12-20T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326907\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:42:08","slug":"avon-and-somerset-police-issue-alert-as-burglars-pose-as-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326907\/","title":{"rendered":"Avon and Somerset Police issue alert as burglars pose as officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avon and Somerset Police said: &#8220;Criminals may claim to be police officers or from utility companies to lull people into a false sense of security. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Any genuine police officer &#8211; or other professional visiting your home &#8211; will expect to show you identification and to wait while you call 101 &#8211; or their main switchboard &#8211; to verify it if you&#8217;re unsure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Please make your family or friends aware of this, and if you see someone acting suspiciously at a neighbour&#8217;s property, call us straight away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Enquiries into the burglary continue, and officers are asking for anyone who was in the area and saw anything suspicious, or has dashcam or other relevant footage, to get in touch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avon and Somerset Police said: &#8220;Criminals may claim to be police officers or from utility companies to lull&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-326907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}