{"id":16143,"date":"2025-09-11T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16143\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:11:12","slug":"police-commissioner-considers-legal-action-over-leaked-tom-phillips-radio-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16143\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Commissioner considers legal action over leaked Tom Phillips radio audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Police Commisioner Richard Chambers said the publication of police audio from the Waikato incident might have broken the law. Photo \/ Mike Scott \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police Commisioner Richard Chambers said the publication of police audio from the Waikato incident might have broken the law. Photo \/ Mike Scott <img  alt=\"Aerial shots of the scene of the shooting. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Aerial shots of the scene of the shooting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have gone to great lengths to provide as much information to the public and the media as we are able to at this point,\u201d said Chambers, \u201cgiven both those investigations and the sensitive privacy issues that are at stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI ask that media give some consideration to the potential impact of their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Police had previously condemned the publication of the material and said it risked compromising active inquiries into the Waikato incident and had caused \u201csignificant distress\u201d to the officers involved and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Stuff digital editor-in-chief Keith Lynch said the news outlet \u201cresolutely stand by this story and the handling of it by our most senior journalists and editors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe death of Tom Phillips is not only of great public interest, but it is of public importance, particularly as speculation about exactly what happened that morning has been circulating on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur journalists went to great lengths to ensure the veracity of the material we received, and and we treated the story with the utmost sensitivity, protecting the privacy of those involved and taking great care to ensure no one could be publicly identified while also avoiding any material which may be sensationalised.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Commisioner Richard Chambers said the publication of police audio from the Waikato incident might have broken the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[432,665,48,1558,14903,8555,18205,305,676,18206,6712,1073,111,43,139,69,18207,1523,10936,675,4965,7819,1516,4758,6859,5134],"class_list":["post-16143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-action","tag-around","tag-audio","tag-been","tag-commissioner","tag-communications","tag-considers","tag-have","tag-investigate","tag-leaked","tag-legal","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outlet","tag-over","tag-phillips","tag-police","tag-radio","tag-shooting","tag-staff","tag-taking","tag-told","tag-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}