<\/b>An off-duty police officer has been charged with a drink-driving offence.<\/p>\n
About 12.35am today (Friday 8 January 2016), officers stopped a vehicle on Pacific Highway, Belmont, for the purpose of a random breath test.<\/p>\n
The female driver was arrested after returning a positive roadside breath test.<\/p>\n
She was taken to Belmont Police Station, where a breath analysis returned an alleged reading of 0.074.<\/p>\n
The senior constable, who is attached to a local area command within the Northern Region, was issued with a Field Court Attendance Notice for low-range PCA.<\/p>\n
She is due to appear at the Belmont Local Court on Wednesday 27 January 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An off-duty police officer has been charged with a drink-driving offence. About 12.35am today (Friday 8 January 2016), officers stopped a vehicle on Pacific Highway, Belmont, for the purpose of a random breath test. The female driver was arrested after returning a positive roadside breath test. She was taken to Belmont Police Station, where a … Continue reading “Police officer charged with drink-driving near Newcastle”<\/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-3282","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\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}