{"id":658526,"date":"2026-06-26T01:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658526\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:49:26","slug":"van-driver-gives-lift-to-armed-officer-chasing-suspect-in-margate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658526\/","title":{"rendered":"Van driver gives lift to armed officer chasing suspect in Margate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The officer got in and with the sliding door still open, he said: &#8220;Go, go, go! Cheers buddy. Follow that police officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the driver sped off in the direction of the suspect, the officer continued giving him instructions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After overtaking the suspect and another officer chasing him on foot, the van pulled over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jumping out, the armed officer trained his gun on the suspect and made the arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver, who has not been named, had watched as heavily armed police struggled to keep up with the suspect as he fled the scene after an assault on High Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the driver was thanked by the officer, he said: &#8220;I am just glad I could be of service. That was quite exhilarating.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The officer got in and with the sliding door still open, he said: &#8220;Go, go, go! Cheers buddy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-658526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658526","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=658526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}