New Zealand Police
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Before you make a request to Police
- Do not ask for information about yourself. We do not allow users to make requests about themselves. Instead, use the Request for Personal Information online form on the Police website. If you ignore this instruction, your request here may be hidden.
- Check if the information is already online. Here are some useful resources:
- Police' Publications & Statistics pages have many Police documents: policies, manual chapters, reports, data &l statistics.
- NZ Police Policy Directory is a volunteer effort to collect all Police policies, including old versions, in one place from OIA requests and other sources.
- Police advice to the Minister is listed by title. To request a copy of this advice, make your request to the Minister of Police.
Things Police might ask
- Police often ask for proof of eligibility to make an OIA request. They are allowed to ask this. Usually they will want some identification.
- Please state that you reside in New Zealand, if that is true. It is our hope that in time making this statement will be considered sufficient.
- Please do not send your contact information using FYI.org.nz as it will automatically be published. If you already have, contact us and we will hide it for you.
- You do not have to fill out another form. If Police respond with a link to another form to fill in, you do not need to do so. Politely remind them that by law they must accept requests in any form. If necessary, point them to the Ombudsman guidance which specifically confirms that requests sent through FYI.org.nz must be accepted.
Contact outside of FYI.org.nz
Note that we do not share your user details with Police. If you are contacted outside FYI.org.nz, please:
- Discuss your request with them if you feel comfortable doing so. If not, you may ask for correspondence to be through FYI.org.nz.
- Note in an annotation that you were contacted. Summarise the discussion if possible.
- Regardless, insist that the formal OIA response be sent to you through FYI.org.nz, to the fyi.org.nz email address from which the original request was sent (see below).
Response received outside of FYI.org.nz
If you have received your response outside the FYI.org.nz system (such as by direct email or post), the response will not be published - which may be intentional. You may:
- Reply to them asking that they re-send the response to the fyi.org.nz email address of the original request. We can provide this if they have lost it. Under OIA s16(2) they must usually provide the response in the way you prefer.
- Let us know in a comment that you received your response bypassing FYI.org.nz.
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Information for the purpose of participating in the Royal Commission inquiry into the attack on Christchurch Mosques.
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Mahrukh Sarwar on .
Long overdue.
We request the following information for the purpose of participating in the Royal Commission inquiry into the attack on Christchurch Mosques....
Minister of Police on 14th may 2016
Response by New Zealand Police to Ross Stewart on .
Long overdue.
'Do not reply to this message, this email message has been sent from an
un-monitored email address'
Thank you for your email, it has been forwarde...
Information regarding the community roadwatch form
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Hugh Davenport on .
Long overdue.
Can I please get an update on this.
Yours faithfully,
Hugh Davenport
Requesting official policy on red light runners
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Hugh Davenport on .
Long overdue.
Can I please get a response to this. I note it is overdue, and the Police have failed to even acknowledge receiving this request.
Yours faithfully...
Information about red light running policies
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Hugh Davenport on .
Long overdue.
Can I please have an update on this. I note this is grossly overdue and I hope that the Police take their legal responsibilities of the OIA seriousl...
Further to the previous request titled "Correspondence between the New Zealand Police and the Auckland Pride"
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Scott Dunning on .
Long overdue.
Please advise the status of this request. It is well past the statutory time-frame.
Yours sincerely,
Scott Dunning
Information about a vehicle pursuit and firearms discharged by Police officers
Response by New Zealand Police to Hugh Davenport on .
Long overdue.
Good afternoon
Your request has been received and assigned.
Ngā mihi
Renée
I'm just letting you know that you have several overdue requests for myself that you are not responding to when I ask for the status. Please reply t...
Fleeing drivers in the Southland district
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Blair Jackson on .
Long overdue.
Please respond to this overdue OIA request.
Yours faithfully,
Blair Jackson
Information about the inability to open links on the Police network due to "Security reasons"
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Hugh Davenport on .
Long overdue.
Thanks for that. I remind you of my additional request made on the 30th. Not due left, but just wanting to make sure it doesn't get lost.
In addit...
Dear Emilie,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Thanks for your Official Information Act (1982) request dated 28 February
2019 in which you requested the fol...
Hello
I have been asked to send the attached response.
Ngā mihi
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters
[1]wordmark...
Information about a traffic stop involving a Metlink bus
Response by New Zealand Police to Hugh Davenport on .
Long overdue.
Dear Hugh
My apologies.
Please find attached the attachment mentioned.
Ngā mihi
Hannah Wright-McCarthy
Ministerial Services Advisor
Police National...
Statistics of strangulation rates charges
Response by New Zealand Police to Zane Collins on .
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Collins
As per your further request of 18 March 2019, I can advise our tier 1
stats are now available and can be found here:
[1]https:/...
Please provide me with the total number of arrests made for tax evasion and benefit fraud, per annum, as far back as records permit.
Yours faithfu...
Police Code of Conduct Complaint(s)
Response by New Zealand Police to Peter Gregory on .
Long overdue.
Thank you for your email.
Information that may assist you is available through the following link:
https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/re...
'Do not reply to this message, this email message has been sent from an
un-monitored email address'
Thank you for your email.
Information that...
Information regarding the contribution of Hong Kong police officers in the Christchurch rescue operations
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Raphael Blet on .
Long overdue.
Your agency reported in a public statement that overseas officers, including some from Hong Kong, were involved in the rescue operations following t...
Emergency Alert - Terrorist Attack
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Aaron Tily on .
Long overdue.
Why at no point in the early hours of the shootings was there an emergency alert to all phones in Christchurch? I've heard of a number of people who...
Hi Dionne
I have sent you instructions on your private email.
Kind regards,
Hannah Wright-McCarthy
Ministerial Services Officer
Ministerial Servic...
Good afternoon
Please find attached a response to your request of 18 September 2018.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters...
Dear C Watson
Please find attached a response to your request of 13 February 2018.
Kind regards
Salote Talagi
Ministerial Servi...
Temporaraly missing firearm in police arms store
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Malcolm Lock on .
Long overdue.
In relation to OIA request https://fyi.org.nz/request/7858-temporaraly-missing-firearm-in-police-arms-store#outgoing-14372
Was an inventory of it...
Use of distracting devices whilst driving
Response by New Zealand Police to Stuart MacDonald on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Stuart
Please find attached the response to your request of 27 August 2018 for
information under the Official Information Act 1982.
R...
Dear Ross
I have been asked to send this attached response. (2 attached)
Kind regards
Holly Foxwell
Ministerial Services Office...
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