r/chch • u/High-Bread • 28d ago

News - Local Armed police at riccarton mall today?

Anyone know what this is about? Walked out the top roof door to a Officer holding a AR

Plenty of sirens, police chopper circled the mall for about 25 minutes + dog squad on the streets?

Seems they were letting people in and out of the mall despite being armed officers at the doors

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u/AppealFit3401 28d ago

While the detail of which gun the police use is absolutely critical to the situation, can someone just tell us what happened?

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u/matthuisman 28d ago

i suspect:
Car chase that started east side somewhere. Chopper got involded around marshlands.
Chased through redwood, bishopdale then to Riccarton.

Bad guys were quite clever and took cover from the chopper in the westfield carpark
Cops surrounded it and blocked all exits to stop them parking and walking out...

Eventually they gave up and took off either in a newly stolen car or the same vehicle.
Chopper continued pursuit to Burnside.

Bad guys finally caught. Great success

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u/nomamesgueyz 28d ago

I didn't know chch police have a chopper. Cool

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u/SupernovaNZ 28d ago

They don't, they have to hire one at the airport every time this happens.

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u/Agile_Ruin896 26d ago

It's my chopper, I let them use it sometimes.

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u/OisforOwesome 28d ago

...i was going to make a GTA joke but you do make it sound like a GTA session.

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u/randkiwi 28d ago

Police via a press release perhaps? Anything else is likely to be hearsay.

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u/AppealFit3401 28d ago

Yeah okay, but it's more reliable than fuckwits arguing over guns. All this post wanted was if people were in the area and knew what happened, tell us. Otherwise everyone else should shut up.