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If you have received your response outside the FYI.org.nz system (such as by direct email or post), the response will not be published - which may be intentional.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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Interception of communications involving Greenpeace staff
Response by New Zealand Police to Nick Young on .
Refused.
Dear Nick
Please find attached the New Zealand Police response to your Official
Information Act request.
Yours sincerely
Jason Smith...
Organized Crime Groups arrested in the past year.
Response by New Zealand Police to Callum on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Tasker
Please find attached Police’s response to your OIA request.
Kind regards,
[1]New Daniel Riordan-Edmonds
Zealand Advisor |...
Dear Karl,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
I refer to your Official Information Act request dated 16 October 2017 in
which you requested:
“I would l...
tickets issued in Hawford Rd Christchurch in past two years
Response by New Zealand Police to Harvey Teulon on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Teulon
I have been asked to send you Police’s response to your Official
Information Act request of 21 November. Please find the reply at...
Dear Mr Cole
Please find attached the response to your OIA request of 17 November 2017.
Kind regards
Salote
[1]http://nzpintranet/re...
Case file for the death of Katrina Ann Jeffries
Response by New Zealand Police to Harrison on .
Refused.
Dear Sir / Madam
You have requested the following information:
Could I please request the case file for the death of Katrina Ann
Jeffries. I am a...
Thank you for all your assistance.
No i did not make a complaint. I would have paid for the CD version but I have been busy with other things and it...
When did Police make the decision to destroy videotaped interviews of the complainants involved in the Peter Ellis case? Please send me copies of an...
Just a note to anyone following this request.
I found Ms Sedgwick reply very useful because her guidance from the Ombudsman contains the following cl...
Hello Mr Lock, please find the response to your request attached.
Regards
Deb Collins
Hawkes Bay Official Information Requests | New Zealand...
Correspondence between Police and all other government organisations regarding Exit International investigation
Response by New Zealand Police to Sam Crawley on .
Refused.
Hi Sam,
Attached is a letter of response to your OIA request
Kind Regards
Tony Milner
Official Information Req...
I am contacting you again to ask if the restructure process referred to above has now been completed. If it has been completed can I be provided wit...
Photos of Wellington protest 6th June 2017
Response by New Zealand Police to stuart yeatse on .
Information not held.
Good afternoon Mr Yeates,
Please find attached a response to your request.
Kind Regards
Official Informa...
Dear B White
I attach the response to your information request to Police about RFIs
submitted to other agencies.
=====================...
Internal Policies Regarding Undercover Operations
Response by New Zealand Police to Mitchell East on .
Refused.
Dear Mr East
Please find attached Police’s response to your Official information Act
request.
Kind regards,
[1]New Daniel Riordan-Edmonds...
Sex Offender Register Proposal
Refused.
Refusal of this request was based in part on there being an upcoming court case that may, allegedly, have been impacted by release of requested documen...
Dear Mr Lock
Thanks for your email.
We understand that the 538 figure Chris Cahill quotes has been produced (generated) from figures collated by the...
Any point in rewording? Appears they've refused on two grounds (no specific offense and no location) - if I reword for the specific offense, will they...
The person investigating my complaint regarding the response to this request has recommended I make a new, more explicit request for this information....
Request for investigation file number 160712/1607
Response by New Zealand Police to Merepaea Dunn on .
Refused.
'Do not reply to this message, this email message has been sent from an
un-monitored email address'
Thank you for your email.
Due to the Privacy...
Dear Ophelia
I have been asked to send you the attached response to your request of 18
January 2017.
Kind regards
[1]http://nzpin...
Search warrant and evidence sheets and other documents relating to police cannabis operations in the Eastern District in 2017.
Response by New Zealand Police to David Johnston on .
Refused.
Good morning David
I refer to your request below dated 17 March 2017 in which you requested
- Can you please provide search warrants, evidence sh...
Total recorded criminal offences in Lower Hutt between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2015
Response by New Zealand Police to John Pritchard on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Pritchard
I refer to your request received on 6 July 2015 under the Official
Information Act 1982 (OIA) relating to information on the t...
Aviation Safety and RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems – ‘drones’) – Enforcement
Information not held.
30 April 2017
As I said before - 'don't know, can't know' as a response, is a little disappointing. Perhaps, it is indicative of the rarity, or even...
Audio copy of 111 call made to Police on 16/2/2014
Response by New Zealand Police to Gerard Ryan on .
Refused.
Good morning, we have received the below email from you requesting your
audio calls into the 111 line.
We require some form of photo ID, such as a...
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