{"id":10528,"date":"2021-03-04T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T08:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2021-03-04T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T08:31:40","slug":"sergeant-geoffrey-richardson-honoured-on-5th-anniversary-of-his-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/sergeant-geoffrey-richardson-honoured-on-5th-anniversary-of-his-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant Geoffrey Richardson honoured on 5th anniversary of his passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media are invited to Raymond Terrace Police Station tomorrow (<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">Friday 5 March 2021<\/a>), as the Port Stephens-Hunter Police District dedicates its multi-purpose training room facilities in honour of Sergeant Geoffrey Richardson.<br \/>\nSergeant Geoffrey Richardson from the Port Stephens Local Area Command was killed when the police car he was driving crashed into a tree on Lovedale Road, Allandale, <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/3\">around 11.50pm<\/a> five years ago tomorrow (Saturday 5 March 2016).<br \/>\nAt the time, Sergeant Richardson had been driving to assist colleagues who were engaged in a pursuit. He was the only person in the car at the time of the crash.<br \/>\nOn the fifth anniversary of his passing, Sergeant Richardson will be remembered by his final command, with the station\u2019s multi-purpose training room at Raymond Terrace Police Station being dedicated in his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media are invited to Raymond Terrace Police Station tomorrow (Friday 5 March 2021), as the Port Stephens-Hunter Police District dedicates its multi-purpose training room facilities in honour of Sergeant Geoffrey Richardson. Sergeant Geoffrey Richardson from the Port Stephens Local Area Command was killed when the police car he was driving crashed into a tree on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/sergeant-geoffrey-richardson-honoured-on-5th-anniversary-of-his-passing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sergeant Geoffrey Richardson honoured on 5th anniversary of his passing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}