{"id":9297,"date":"2019-07-02T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2019-07-02T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:23:24","slug":"extra-police-presence-in-verwood-after-reports-of-teenagers-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/extra-police-presence-in-verwood-after-reports-of-teenagers-with-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra police presence in Verwood after reports of teenagers with guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed police attended an incident in Verwood on Monday evening after a boy said he&#8217;d been chased by teenagers with guns.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The police said they had received information that a group of teenagers, two of whom were allegedly in possession of guns, in the area of Bingham Drive.<\/p>\n<p>But after inspection, it turned out that the allegation was not as originally explained.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Dorset Police told VerwoodToday: &#8220;Officers, including armed officers, attended and a search of the area was carried out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was subsequently established that the allegation was not as originally stated and the boy had just seen one person with a catapult but they had not made any threats or chased him. There was no evidence of any guns being seen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No further police action was required.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Local officers will be carrying out patrols in the area today to reassure members of the public who witnessed the police presence yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s probably for public reassurance but in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Verwood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Verwood<\/a> Multiple Armed Unmarked and Marked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dorsetpolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DorsetPolice<\/a> Units in area, seen patrolling near Morrisons and Tesco&#39;s Extra <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DorsetPoliceLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DorsetPoliceLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VerwoodToday?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VerwoodToday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bournemouthecho?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bournemouthecho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2600\ufe0f Dorset Culture \u26c8 (@DorsetCulture) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DorsetCulture\/status\/1145732841369681921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed police attended an incident in Verwood on Monday evening after a boy said he&#8217;d been chased by teenagers with guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-9297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-dorset-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}