{"id":625139,"date":"2026-10-09T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625139\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:34:09","slug":"senior-invercargill-cop-resigns-amid-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625139\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Invercargill cop resigns amid investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top Invercargill police officer has resigned after his alleged misconduct many years ago came to light.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jon Bisset, an Invercargill-based inspector for the Southern District Police, was working out his notice period after handing in his resignation last month,\u00a0Stuff reported.<\/p>\n<p>Insp Bisset\u00a0was reportedly the subject of a police investigation being overseen by the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was\u00a0in relation to allegations about his conduct many years ago,\u00a0Stuff reported.<\/p>\n<p>Once those allegations came to light, Insp\u00a0Bisset was placed on restricted duties while on full pay, which meant he could only work from home and was not allowed to visit the Invercargill Police Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An IPCA spokesperson told the ODT the file into the investigation was still open pending the conclusion\u00a0of matters by police, and any inquiries about the investigation should be directed to police.<\/p>\n<p>Southern District Commander Superintendent Jason Guthrie said he was\u00a0unable to comment on private employment matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top Invercargill police officer has resigned after his alleged misconduct many years ago came to light.\u00a0 Jon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-625139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625139","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=625139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}