Police attached to Central Hunter Local Area Command are investigating two separate incidents where children have been approached.<\/p>\n
The first incident occurred just after 8.30am today (Tuesday 24 February, 2015), a 12-year-old girl was sitting on the eastern side of Metford Road near the intersection of Collinson Street at Tenambit.<\/p>\n
A white van stopped in the middle of the road and the driver spoke to the girl before driving away.<\/p>\n
The girl boarded her bus and informed her teachers at schools of the incident.<\/p>\n
The van is described as being white with no windows, with long PVC pipes on the roof and black and white number plates. The driver is described as having a dark complexion, dark brown hair wearing a high visibility vest.<\/p>\n
The second incident occurred about 3pm (Tuesday 24 February 2015), when a 10-year-old girl was walking home from her school towards her bus stop at the intersection of Elgin Street and Ken Tubman Drive at Maitland.<\/p>\n
A car stopped near the girl and the driver asked her to get into the car. The girl ran back to school and informed her teachers.<\/p>\n
The car is described as being a white station wagon and the driver is a male, aged in his 40s , Caucasian appearance, short hair with a beard and tattoos on his arm.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the incident has again prompted police to encourage parents to discuss the \u2018Safe People, Safe Places\u2019 messages with their children, including;<\/p>\n
– Make sure your parents or another adult you know knows where you are at all times.<\/p>\n
– Always walk straight home or to the place you are walking to. Walk near busier roads and streets, or use paths where there are lots of other people.<\/p>\n
– Know where safe places are \u2013 a shop, service station, police station, library or school. If you are ever frightened, you should go to one of these places and ask them to call the police.<\/p>\n
– Learn about safe adults you can look for and talk to if you need help \u2013 police officers, teachers at school, adults you know and trust.<\/p>\n
– Don\u2019t talk to people you don\u2019t know and never get into a car with someone you don\u2019t know. If a car stops on the side of the road and you don\u2019t know the person inside, do not stop.<\/p>\n
– If you are scared and can use a phone, call 000 and tell them you are scared.<\/p>\n
– If someone tries to grab you, yell out, \u2018Go away, I don\u2019t know you\u2019. This lets other people know you have been approached by someone you don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police attached to Central Hunter Local Area Command are investigating two separate incidents where children have been approached. The first incident occurred just after 8.30am today (Tuesday 24 February, 2015), a 12-year-old girl was sitting on the eastern side of Metford Road near the intersection of Collinson Street at Tenambit. A white van stopped in … Continue reading “Police investigate reports of child approached incidents – Central Hunter Local Area Command”<\/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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}