{"id":17488,"date":"2022-07-26T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17488"},"modified":"2022-07-26T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:13:33","slug":"critical-incident-declared-following-death-of-a-man-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/critical-incident-declared-following-death-of-a-man-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical incident declared following death of a man \u2013 Newcastle\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A critical incident investigation has been launched following the death of a man in Newcastle yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just after&nbsp;7.45pm&nbsp;(Tuesday 26 July 2022), officers attached to Newcastle City Police Area Command were called to Bar Beach, Newcastle, following reports of concern for a man\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On arrival, officers attempted to speak to a 78-year-old man before he fell from a cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A critical incident team from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District will now investigate all circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation will be subject to an independent review and a report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical incident investigation has been launched following the death of a man in Newcastle yesterday. Just after&nbsp;7.45pm&nbsp;(Tuesday 26 July 2022), officers attached to Newcastle City Police Area Command were called to Bar Beach, Newcastle, following reports of concern for a man\u2019s welfare. On arrival, officers attempted to speak to a 78-year-old man before he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/critical-incident-declared-following-death-of-a-man-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critical incident declared following death of a man \u2013 Newcastle\u00a0&#8220;<\/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-17488","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\/17488","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=17488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17489,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions\/17489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}