{"id":39660,"date":"2026-06-28T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=39660"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:44:49","slug":"officer-charged-northern-region-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/officer-charged-northern-region-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer charged \u2013 Northern Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police officer has been charged with malicious damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 12.15am today (Saturday 27 June 2026), police commenced an investigation into an incident allegedly committed by a police officer while off-duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers arrested the 59-year-old man where he was taken to Belmont Police Station and charged with destroy or damage property (DV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officer \u2013 a sergeant attached to a command in the Northern Region \u2013 was granted conditional bail to appear at Belmont Local Court on Monday 13 July 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officer\u2019s employment status is under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer has been charged with malicious damage. About 12.15am today (Saturday 27 June 2026), police commenced an investigation into an incident allegedly committed by a police officer while off-duty. Officers arrested the 59-year-old man where he was taken to Belmont Police Station and charged with destroy or damage property (DV). The officer \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/officer-charged-northern-region-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Officer charged \u2013 Northern Region&#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-39660","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\/39660","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=39660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39661,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39660\/revisions\/39661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}