Hello Tony

I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act1982 (OIA) request
for the information below.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA.

Ngā mihi

 

Ministerial Services

Police National Headquarters

 

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Good morning
 
Your request is in final review and quality check and is due to be sent
this week. I am sorry we missed the deadline on this one. In order to
prevent agencies taking advantage of the extension allowance, it is
limited to cases where a request requires either a large amount of either
collation and research or external consultation. In this case, the
response is late due to staff movement and their replacement being
injured. We will have it to you as soon as we can and we appreciate your
patience with the delay.
 

Ngā mihi

 

 

Renée Maunder

Senior Advisor

Ministerial Services

 

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-----Tony James <[FOI #10254 email]> wrote:
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To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police
<[New Zealand Police request email]>
From: Tony James <[FOI #10254 email]>
Date: 10/06/2019 12:13AM
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Bicycle thefts

Dear New Zealand Police,
I was wondering how you were getting along with my request?  It is well
past 20 working days and you didn't extend the due date (which you're
entitled to do and I would have happily agreed to if you had asked).
Yours faithfully,
Tony James

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Dear Tony,

 

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

Thanks for your Official Information Act request dated 5 May 2019 in which
you requested information on bicycle theft as follows:

 

Please provide, broken down by police district and the last five calendar
years:

 

·          The number of thefts of bicycles

·          The number of people charged with theft of a bicycle

·          The number of charges for theft of a bicycle

·          The number of bicycles recovered and returned to their owners

 

The tables below, broken down by Police District for the period from July
2014 to March 2019, refer to the following:

 

·          Reported victimisations for the ‘Theft of bicycles’

·          No. of offenders charged for the ‘Theft of a Bicycle’

·          Proceedings against offenders for the ‘Theft of a Bicycle’
resulting in court action

 

Police does not publish statistics on recovered items for theft (i.e.
bicycles). Therefore, this part of your request is refused under section
18(g) of the OIA.

 

Table 1. Reported Victimisations for the Theft of Bicycles

  Jul - Dec 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Jan - Mar 2019
Northland 25 27 46 63 55 4
Waitemata 57 126 183 167 113 40
Auckland City 201 467 719 546 374 175
Counties/Manukau 38 132 150 137 82 24
Waikato 130 273 281 451 212 48
Bay Of Plenty 115 208 212 300 177 58
Central 104 228 232 288 184 46
Eastern 93 214 245 297 161 46
Wellington 158 396 309 351 325 100
Tasman 109 173 152 178 125 43
Canterbury 274 704 759 697 721 211
Southern 92 106 100 107 101 37
Total 1396 3054 3388 3582 2630 832

 

 

Table 2. No. of Offenders Charged for the Theft of a Bicycle
                                     

  Jul - Dec 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Jan - Mar 2019
Northland 0 3 5 7 3 0
Waitemata 0 12 7 5 1 1
Auckland City 7 7 33 53 12 3
Counties/Manukau 1 5 2 6 0 1
Waikato 3 8 9 14 5 1
Bay Of Plenty 6 14 20 16 13 5
Central 3 6 17 12 9 4
Eastern 4 7 11 17 6 1
Wellington 1 11 5 13 17 4
Tasman 2 0 4 6 4 1
Canterbury 1 14 15 15 21 6
Southern 0 5 6 5 4 3
Total 28 92 134 169 95 30

 

Table 3. Proceedings against Offenders for the Theft of a Bicycle
resulting in Court Action

  Jul - Dec 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Jan - Mar 2019
Northland 0 4 7 10 5 0
Waitemata 0 14 9 6 1 1
Auckland City 10 8 37 57 12 3
Counties/Manukau 1 5 2 8 0 1
Waikato 3 8 10 15 5 1
Bay Of Plenty 6 14 20 17 14 5
Central 3 7 20 12 9 5
Eastern 4 7 12 19 6 1
Wellington 1 14 6 14 24 4
Tasman 2 0 4 6 4 1
Canterbury 1 15 15 17 25 6
Southern 0 5 7 8 4 3
Total 31 101 149 189 109 31

 

 

Please note that information for Table 1 – ‘Reported Victimisations for
Theft of bicycles’ – are publically available on [1]policedata.nz.
Specifically, the information can be extracted from the “Victimisations
(police stations) Report”.

 

A proceeding counts each separate occasion when Police deal with an
alleged offender for one or more offences. The tables above present the
number of offenders or counts of all proceedings involving at least one
‘Theft of a bicycle’ offence.

 

Proceedings are usually classified according to the most serious offence
that the offender is dealt with on that occasion. This offence might not
be for the ‘Theft of a bicycle’. Please note therefore that these figures
may differ to figures published elsewhere.

 

Although for the reason above not all of the information you have sought
has been provided with this letter, I trust my response is helpful. If you
have any questions, please feel free to contact me via
[email address].

 

If you are not satisfied with my response to your request you have the
right to complain to the Office of the Ombudsmen and seek an investigation
and review of my decision.

 

Regards,

 

 

Obert Cinco

Team Manager - Reporting

Evidence Based Policing Centre

New Zealand Police

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