Polcing on Pitcairn Island
Andrew Schofield made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Andrew Schofield
Dear New Zealand Police,
I understand that the New Zealand Police provide officers to provide law enforcement activities to the UK territory of Pitcairn Island.
Please can you provide the following for the policing of Pitcairn Island:
a) a breakdown of costs for each of the last ten years
b) a copy of any briefing document for officers deployed to Pitcairn
c) details of any additional allowances payable to officers deployed to Pitcairn
d) details of the minimum and maximum planned length of deployments to Pitcairn
Yours faithfully,
Andrew Schofield
From: FLEMING, Emma
New Zealand Police
Dear Andrew Schofield,
Thank you for your Official Information Request to NZ Police dated 15
August 2020 regarding law enforcement activities on Pitcairn Island.
In consideration of your request can you please confirm your eligibility
(as per one of the categories below) to make the request.
As per the Official Information Act 1982, to request information, you must
be:
o A New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, or
o Actually present in New Zealand, or
o A body corporate that is incorporated or that has a place of business
in New Zealand.
Your request has also been made with urgent priority – please advise of
the reason for urgency.
Regards,
Emma Fleming
Emma Fleming
R/Manager: Overseas Assistance Programmes
International Service Group
M +64 21 191 5336
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Kia ora Andrew
I refer to your request of 15 August 2020 for information relating to law
enforcement to the UK territory of Pitcairn Island.
I have been asked to let you know that there will be a delay in responding
to your request.
This is due to the time taken to retrieve information that will be
included in the response to your request.
The new anticipated response date for your request is 6 October 2020.
Our sincere apologies for this delay.
Kind regards
Hannah
Ministerial Services
PNHQ
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From: Andrew Schofield
Dear New Zealand Police,
I can confirm that I am eligible to make a request under the criteria within the Official Information Act.
Yours faithfully,
Andrew Schofield
From: WHITFIELD, Marianne
New Zealand Police
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Kia Ora Andrew
I have recently taken over this request and note your response confirming
your eligibility to make this request, as per the criteria set out in the
previous email.
However, unfortunately we require some documentary confirmation of your
eligibility, such as a copy/photo of the bio page of your passport (and
residents visa if appropriate) or other relevant document.
Please feel free to provide this to me directly at
[1][email address] rather than posting a copy of your
personal documents.
Kind regards
Marianne Whitfield, Inspector, MWAR82
Acting Manager: Overseas Assistance Programmes
International Service Group
P +64 6 2102227
E [2][email address]
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From: Andrew Schofield
Good Morning Inspector Whitfield,
Please can I ask that you reconsider your request for me to provide documents, such as photo page of my passport, as evidence of my eligibility under the act.
Firstly, you are asking me to provide this information on a public forum, where visibility of such documents may render me liable to identify theft, and the possible adverse affect on my life that may lead to.
Secondly, this pushes an unreasonable burden on myself to request access to information that parliament has deemed fit to grant.
And finally, the website, via which this request is being made, FYI.org.nz, has been previously advised by Renee Maunders, then Senior Advisor, Ministerial Services at New Zealand Police "that [selectively asking requesters for evidence that they meet the OIA's eligibility requirements] would be very much against our policy (and the spirit, if not the letter, of the law) and our capacity. Police does the vast majority of requests and we have a small team in a devolved model, and we don't have the time to check. If you know if it happening - direct people straight to the Ombudsman."
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Schofield
From: WHITFIELD, Marianne
New Zealand Police
Kia ora Andrew
Thank you for your email.
Please rest assured I did not expect you to provide your personal details in a public forum, which was why I offered for you to send them to me directly. Unfortunately I did not appreciate the website would remove my email address.
I was advised to request additional evidence of eligibility in this instance because your request relates to a British jurisdiction and therefore it was for clarity that your request was coming from NZ.
Given your confirmation of eligibility, I will progress this matter today.
Kind regards
Marianne
Marianne Whitfield, Inspector, MWAR82
Relieving Manager: Overseas Assistance Programmes
International Service Group
P +64 6 2102227
M +64 21 191 4756
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Kia ora Mr Schofield
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by NZ Police on 15 August 2020.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in providing you with this
response.
Kind regards,
Sarah
PNHQ
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WARNING
The information contained in this email message is intended for the
addressee only and may contain privileged information. It may also be
subject to the provisions of section 50 of the Policing Act 2008, which
creates an offence to have unlawful possession of Police property. If you
are not the intended recipient of this message or have received this
message in error, you must not peruse, use, distribute or copy this
message or any of its contents.
Also note, the views expressed in this message may not necessarily reflect
those of the New Zealand Police. If you have received this message in
error, please email or telephone the sender immediately
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Last year, I was advised by NZ Police's senior advisor Renee Maunder that Police should not be demanding proof of eligibility in this way. I recommend you push back against this imposition, and consider laying a complaint with the Ombudsman:
"Mark Hanna I am now the Senior Advisor at Police, and that [selectively asking requesters for evidence that they meet the OIA's eligibility requirements] would be very much against our policy (and the spirit, if not the letter, of the law) and our capacity. Police does the vast majority of requests and we have a small team in a devolved model, and we don't have the time to check. If you know if it happening - direct people straight to the Ombudsman."
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