{"id":6289,"date":"2023-07-07T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:37:52","slug":"nz-police-officer-arrested-over-assault-of-teenager-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6289","title":{"rendered":"NZ police officer arrested over assault of teenager in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ppolice have confirmed that a serving New Zealand officer is facing criminal charges in Canberra, over an alleged indecent assault on a teenager.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Canberra Times<\/i>\u00a0has identified the accused officer as 66-year-old David Brooke.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the alleged offending occurred in an international jurisdiction, while the officer was on leave.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Canberra Times<\/i>\u00a0reported the officer was attending a national football tournament as a referee when the offending occurred.<\/p>\n<p>They said they are limited in making further comment, as a court process is under way, but an employment process will be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ppolice have confirmed that a serving New Zealand officer is facing criminal charges in Canberra, over an alleged indecent assault on a teenager. The Canberra Times\u00a0has identified the accused officer as 66-year-old David Brooke. The police said the alleged offending occurred in an international jurisdiction, while the officer was on leave. The Canberra Times\u00a0reported the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}