OIA20-0792
8 December 2020
Grace Haden
[FYI request #14051 email]
Dear Grace Haden
I refer to your email of 23 November 2020 requesting information relating to the warranting of
SPCA inspectors. Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
(OIA).
You requested the following:
I appreciate that some of the information requested was not available due to
protection of their privacy but it is important that we know who the organisation was
which employed each inspector this has relevance with regards to section 190
Animal welfare act hence I wish to be advised which organisation the respective
inspectors were employed by and whether or not it was a branch member
society or the approved organisation itself.
As you were advised in our previous correspondence (our reference: OIA20-0693),
information relating to specific SPCA inspectors has been withheld in accordance with
section 9(2)(a) of the OIA
- to protect the privacy of natural persons, as it contains
information relating to the abovenamed application forms, police vetting forms and
identification forms.
Information supplied by the SPCA to the Ministry for Primary Industries for the purpose of providing
the statutory appointment of “Animal Welfare Inspector” included their Job title and the location of
the SPCA they were working for.
In 2017 the SPCA amalgamated 46 Independent SPCA Branches and Member Societies (known
as “Centres”) into one National Organisation, the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals Incorporated (RNZSPCA). Some of the people you have requested information
were appointed before 2017. They were therefore employed by an SPCA Centre until 2017, then
subsequently RNZSPCA.
Charles Fergusson Building, 34-38 Bowen Street
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
mpi.govt.nz
First Appointed as
an Animal Welfare
SPCA Centre
Position Title
Inspector
Auckland (Member
Chief Inspector SPCA
Greg Reid
16/10/2014
Society)
Auckland
Auckland (Member
Lori Davis
04/02/2016
Animal Welfare Inspector
Society)
RNZSPCA (Auckland
Michael Loulanting
15/11/2019
Chief Inspector Auckland
Centre)
Auckland (Member
Kevin Plowright
09/11/2005
Animal Welfare Inspector
Society)
RNZSPCA (National
General Manager
Tracy Phillips
16/08/2020
Role)
Inspectorate
Should you have any concerns with this response, I would encourage you to raise these with
the Ministry for Primary Industries at
[email address]. Alternatively, you
are advised of your right to also raise any concerns with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Contact details are: Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143 or at
[email address]. Yours sincerely
Gary Orr
Director Compliance Services
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