Outrageous Fortune and Westside.

James Scott made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police

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From: James Scott

Dear New Zealand Police,

Please disclose any communications and/or consultation between South Pacific Pictures (or any representative thereof) and New Zealand Police about the content of the following shows:

- Outrageous Fortune
- Westside

Both shows ran (or run) storylines that portray elements of corruption, misuse of power, brutality and harrassment within your organisation. Anecdotally speaking these storylines are a true reflection of behaviour of some individuals within New Zealand Police and I am interested to what level Police were consulted and/or objected to and/or influenced these storylines on these shows.

Yours faithfully,

James.

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Dear Mr Scott
 
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request,
received by NZ Police on 17 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

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From: "James Scott" <[FOI #12642 email]>
Date: 17/04/2020 05:53PM
Subject: Official Information request - Outrageous Fortune and Westside.

Dear New Zealand Police,
Please disclose any communications and/or consultation between South
Pacific Pictures (or any representative thereof) and New Zealand Police
about the content of the following shows:
- Outrageous Fortune
- Westside
Both shows ran (or run) storylines that portray elements of corruption,
misuse of power, brutality and harrassment within your organisation.
Anecdotally speaking these storylines are a true reflection of behaviour
of some individuals within New Zealand Police and I am interested to what
level Police were consulted and/or objected to and/or influenced these
storylines on these shows.
Yours faithfully,
James.
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Good afternoon Scott
 
Please see attached the reply to OIA received by the NZ Police
17/04/2020.  Please accept our apologies for the delay in delivery.
 
Kind regards
 
Rikki-Lee
Ministerial Services
PNHQ

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From: James Scott

Dear New Zealand Police,

Please advice the withholding grounds for the two quite substantial redactions made to the email chain released in response to my request.

Yours faithfully,

James Scott

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Kia ora James

 

Apologies, those redaction's were made in error.

 

I have attached now the appropriate redaction copies. 
 

Kind regards

 

Hannah

 

Ministerial Services

PNHQ

  

To: "OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police" <  
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From: "James Scott" <   [2] [FYI request #12642 email]
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Date: 10/06/2020 04:38PM
Subject: Re: OIA response - IR-01-20-11409

Dear New Zealand Police,

Please advice the withholding grounds for the two quite substantial
redactions made to the email chain released in response to my request.

Yours faithfully,

James Scott

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