{"id":23591,"date":"2025-09-15T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23591\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:50:07","slug":"assistant-police-commissioner-paul-basham-retiring-after-40-years-in-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23591\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Basham retiring after 40 years in police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KGIY0L_Paul_Basham_1_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Paul Basham\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Basham has announced his retirement, RNZ understands.<\/p>\n<p>It comes nearly two months after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/567875\/deputy-police-commissioner-tania-kura-retires\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retirement of Deputy Police Commissioner Tania Kura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know more? Email sam.sherwood@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>Basham, the Assistant Commissioner of Investigations, was appointed to the role in February last year.<\/p>\n<p>When his appointment was announced, police said he joined police in 1985. He joined the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) in 1988 and qualified as a detective in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>From 2017 to 2024 he was the Southern District Commander.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Basham said he had the &#8220;privilege of working with many amazing people across several diverse roles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had a wonderful, rewarding career with Police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remain passionate about the difference Police make for people and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Basham has announced his retirement, RNZ understands. It comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-23591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591","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=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}