Dear Mr Farrell
 
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request
received by NZ Police on 7 April 2020.
 
As you are aware, Police are needing to redeploy staff in the face of
unprecedented circumstances as we respond to Covid-19. This will have a
severe impact on our ability to respond to requests for information under
the OIA in a timely fashion. We will do our best to respond to you as soon
as we can.
 
Thank you for your understanding.
 
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
PNHQ

-----"Daniel Farrell" <[FOI #12584 email]>
wrote: -----
To: "OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police"
<[New Zealand Police request email]>
From: "Daniel Farrell" <[FOI #12584 email]>
Date: 07/04/2020 12:28PM
Subject: Official Information request - Pursuits resulting in abandonment
and arrest

Dear New Zealand Police,
Under the Official Information Act 1982, I request the following
information:
1. Between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2019, how many police pursuits
were undertaken?
2. Of those police pursuits, how many:
a) were abandoned?; and
b) resulted directly in the arrest of a person for crimes committed
outside of the pursuit itself?
3. Between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2019, how many traffic stops
were undertaken?
4. Of those traffic stops, how many resulted in the use of patrol dog
teams?
5. Of those uses of patrol dog teams, how many resulted in a positive
indication for a breach of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975?
Yours faithfully,
Daniel Farrell
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Tēnā koe Daniel

 

I am emailing in regards to your recent Official Information Act request
relating to Police pursuits. I note that your request is due tomorrow (8
May 2020) however, please accept our apologies that it is unable to be
released by this time.

 

This is because Police are needing to redeploy staff in the face of
unprecedented circumstances as we respond to COVID-19. This has a severe
impact on our ability to respond to requests for information under the
Official Information Act 1982 in a timely fashion, and impacts the
availability of staff to review Official Information Act responses as
required.

 

We appreciate this will be frustrating but please know we are doing
everything we can to keep our communities safe. We will endeavour to get
the response to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

 

Ngā mihi

Hannah

 

Hannah Campbell

Information Officer

National Road Policing Centre l New Zealand Police

 

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Hi Daniel

Thank you for your email. I have had a look into this and I can see that your response was progressed to one of the last stages of our internal review on Friday (19/06/2020). This suggests that your response should be made available to you by the end of the week at the latest.

Again, sincere apologies for the significant delay in response time. We are working hard to catch up on all outstanding Official Information Act requests through these extraordinary times.

I thank you for your patience and I will endeavour to keep you updated should I receive any new information. I have also forwarded the below email to our Ministerial Services team who arrange the review of responses with our executive team, and requested that your response be flagged as high priority.

Many thanks
Hannah

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Tena koe Daniel
 
Please see attached OIA received by NZ Police 07/04/2020.  Please accept
our apologies for the delay.
 
Kind regards
 
Rikki-Lee
Ministerial Services

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