Gang raids
Mark Montgomery made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Mark Montgomery
Dear New Zealand Police,
As a New Zealand resident and citizen by birth I hereby request the following information, pursuant to the Official Information Act.
1. The number of planned and unplanned Police operations undertaken at gang premises or known gang properties since 1 July 2019; and
2. The number of firearms seized by Police during these operations since 1 July 2019 to 31 January 2020; and
3. The number of road side Police stops since 1 July 2019 to 31 January 2020 on gang owned / related vehicles vehicles; and
4.The number of firearms seized by Police since 1 July 2019 to 31 January 2020 during these road side stops.
Thanks for your assistance.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Montgomery
New Zealand Police
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From: "Mark Montgomery" <[FOI #12123 email]>
Date: 31/01/2020 12:08PM
Subject: Official Information request - Gang raids
Dear New Zealand Police,
As a New Zealand resident and citizen by birth I hereby request the
following information, pursuant to the Official Information Act.
1. The number of planned and unplanned Police operations undertaken at
gang premises or known gang properties since 1 July 2019; and
2. The number of firearms seized by Police during these operations since 1
July 2019 to 31 January 2020; and
3. The number of road side Police stops since 1 July 2019 to 31 January
2020 on gang owned / related vehicles vehicles; and
4.The number of firearms seized by Police since 1 July 2019 to 31 January
2020 during these road side stops.
Thanks for your assistance.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Montgomery
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From: Mark Montgomery
Dear New Zealand Police,
Can you please advise when the requested information will be made available? My reckoning is that this request should have been completed by 2 March 2020. To date all I have received is an automated response acknowledging that your systems had received my request.
If nothing further is heard from Police by 20 March 2020 I will consider lodging a complaint with the Ombudsmans Office.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Montgomery
Northland (Province)
Mark Montgomery left an annotation ()
I'll await the lockdown being lifted before considering where I go with this request.
There's a probability that I'll just head to the Ombudsmans Office
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Kia ora Mark
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Ministerial Services
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Partial refusal on a couple of parts of the request, stating that they don't collect some records centrally! The information I was seeking can is not consolidated nationally from the Police Districts.
I've gone back to the sender asking if what I need to do is OIA each of the Police Districts for the information they can't provide centrally.
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Apart from an automated response nothing has been heard from Police to date.
Follow-up has been initiated.
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