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To: "OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police"
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From: "H Rogers" <[FOI #12270 email]>
Date: 19/02/2020 12:11PM
Subject: Official Information request - Use of Interpreters in taking
Formal Written Statements at the Police Station

Dear New Zealand Police,
Please can you supply the Police Policy and the relevant section of the
Police Guidelines/Manual relating to the use of foreign language
interpreters when interviewing defendants and witnesses whose first
language is not English.
Specifically, police interviews at the police station when police officers
take formal written statements or DVD statements in respect of criminal
allegations or charges which are later provided as a disclosure under the
Criminal Disclosure Act.
Finally, the regulations used to authenticate such statements when an
interpreter is used.
I confirm I am a New Zealand citizen and I reside in Auckland
Yours faithfully,
H Rogers
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Kia ora

 

Please find attached the response to your correspondence of   19
February 2020.

 

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