10 June 2021
Ref: DOIA 2021-2433
K. Roe
[FYI request #14677 email]
Dear K. Roe
Thank you for your email of 25 May 2021 to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (the
Ministry) requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following information:
Hi, I'm not sure why my question wasn't really answered.
What I am getting at is... People to into quarantine as they re-enter NZ. Some or most of them.
1. And I wanting to know how many of those people the Government chooses to keep in
institutions. So... From quarantine, some will be labelled 'criminals' and they will go from
quarantine into prisons.
2. And, from quarantine, some will be labelled 'psychiatrically disturbed' and they will go from
quarantine into psychiatric facilities.
For example, the Henry Bennett Centre of the Waikato Hospital or the Psychiatric ICU of the
Grafton Hospital.
3. I am wondering how many people have gone into quarantine and then been involuntarily
detained by one of the District Health Boards to be a psychiatric inpatient. Whether the
District Health Board has filled out the paperwork for them to be lawfully held involuntarily or
whether the District Health Board claims that they voluntarily chose to gave up their freedom
and comply with directive to go do psychiatric detention.
4. I am wondering how many might still be retained in government institutions?
Maybe the hacker will know about the Waikato District Health Board. As whoever hacked the
Auckland University Alumni Donar list will know how much people are payign to get their kids
entry to Medicine, Medical Scholarships, Medical Internship Placements, and final Sign off. [sic]
In regards to part one of your request, we have transferred to New Zealand Police (Police). Police have
the proper authority to execute arrest warrants in New Zealand.
Parts two, three and four of your request have also been partially transferred to the relevant District
Health Boards (DHBs) which manage Managed Isolation and Quarantine facilities; namely: Canterbury,
Capital and Coast, Lakes and Waikato DHBs as well as the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre,
which acts for Auckland, Waitemata and Counties Manukau DHBs.
This is because the information you have requested is not held by the. Section 14(b)(i) of the Official
Information Act allows me to transfer any request where the information is not held, but is believed to be
held by another department, organisation or Minister of the Crown.
You can contact Police and the DHBs at the fol owing email addresses and websites if you wish to follow
up with them directly:
[email address]
[email address]
[email address]
[email address]
www.cdhb.health.nz/about-us/contact-us/
www.police.govt.nz/advice-services/request-information/request-other-information-official-information-
act.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information
about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802
602.
Yours sincerely
Jacquiline Cooke
Team Leader, Ministerial Services
Managed Isolation and Quarantine
