Tēnā koe Mr Thompson
 
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request
below, received by NZ Police on 18 December 2020.
 
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the Act.
 
Please note, as per section 2 of the Act, the three weeks between 25
December and 15 January in the following year do not count as working
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2021.
 
Ngā mihi
Fiona
Ministerial Services
PNHQ
 
-----"Alan Thompson" <[FOI #14327 email]>
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To: "OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police"
<[New Zealand Police request email]>
From: "Alan Thompson" <[FOI #14327 email]>
Date: 18/12/2020 10:10AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Official Information request - Response to
Whakaari/White Island by NZ Police

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Dear New Zealand Police,
By virtue of their 24-hour l, the NZ Police will frequently be required to
accept the initial responsibility for coordination of an emergency (ref
Para 37 National CD and Emergency Plan Order 2015).
With respect to NZ Police's response to the Whakaari/White Island disaster
I seek the following information under the provisions of the Official
Information Act.
1.  Where NZ Police at any time after the eruption of Whakaari on 9th
December 2019 managing, controlling, directing or otherwise responsible
for coordinating the response to the disaster including the search for,
rescue and/or recovery of victims of the incident?
2. If NZ Police were at some point initially responsible for coordination
of the response was the handover to NEMA or to the Bay of Plenty CD&EM
Group and what was the date/time of that handover?
3. Who then were the other agencies that NZ Police were coordinating and
was this undertaken in accordance with the NZ Coordinated Incident
Management System as required by the National Plan?
Yours faithfully,
Alan Thompson
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Kia ora Alan

Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 18 December 2020.

Please accept our apologies for the delay in providing you with this
response.

Kind regards, Michelle

Ministerial Services PNHQ

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