{"id":23295,"date":"2025-09-15T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23295\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:12:07","slug":"assistant-police-commissioner-paul-basham-retiring-after-40-years-in-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23295\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Basham retiring after 40 years in police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>15 Sep, 2025 05:30 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police Assistant Commissioner Paul Basham. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Basham has announced his retirement, RNZ understands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It comes nearly two months after the retirement of Deputy Police Commissioner Tania Kura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Basham, the Assistant Commissioner of Investigations, was appointed to the role in February last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         When<br \/>\n         his appointment was announced, police said he joined police in 1985. He joined the Criminal Investigation Branch in 1988 and qualified as a detective in 1991.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 15 Sep, 2025 05:30 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24041,74,2731,24040,14903,78,111,43,139,69,17357,675,8667,15768,1530],"class_list":["post-23295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-24041","tag-after","tag-assistant","tag-basham","tag-commissioner","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paul","tag-police","tag-retiring","tag-sherwood","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295","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=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}