Success rate of new pursuit policy
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From: Mr J Stewart
Dear New Zealand Police,
Around December 2020 Police changed their pursuit policy.
My questions in relation to this are:
- For 2 years prior to the change, how many pursuits/fleeing driver incidents were there.
- Of these incidents, what percentage resulted in the driver being identified.
- Of these incidents, how many resulted in serious crashes.
- Since the change in policy, how many pursuit/fleeing driver incidents have there been.
- Of these incidents, what percentage resulted in the driver being identified.
- Of these incidents, how many resulted in serious crashes.
Yours faithfully,
Ashley Stewart
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request below, received by New Zealand Police on 27 August 2021.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA. You can expect a response to your request on or before 24 September 2021.
Kind regards, Michelle
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe Ashley
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 27 August 2021.
Ngā mihi,
Penni
Penni Davenport | Senior Advisor | Ministerial Services
Strategy & Partnerships |PNHQ
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From: Mr J Stewart
Dear Ministerial Services,
Thank you for the prompt reply.
The answer has raised a few more questions I'd like to seek some information for. Can a column be added showing the following:
- for each year, the percentage of fleeing driver incidents where a pursuit was initiated
- for each of those pursuits, how many were abandoned
- percentage of fleeing driver incidents where the police helicopter was used
Can the whole dataset please be pushed out to include from 2010 -2021. Looking for a reason for the declining amount of offenders identified, 58% - 35% is a pretty big drop.
I also seek clarification to one point. My initial question was seeking data of when the driver specifically was identified, the answer given talks about offenders. I just want to confirm offenders is in fact the driver and not other people that may have been in the car at the time.
Cheers,
Ashely
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe Ashley
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request below, received by New Zealand Police on 15 September 2021.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA. You can expect a response to your request on or before 13 October 2021.
Kind regards, Michelle
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tçnâ koe Ashley
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 15 September 2021.
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Ministerial Services Advisor
NZ Police National Headquarters Wellington
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From: Mr J Stewart
Dear Ministerial Services,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, one of my questions was missed, could an answer please be provided for my question:
"I also seek clarification to one point. My initial question was seeking data of when the driver specifically was identified, the answer given talks about offenders. I just want to confirm offenders is in fact the driver and not other people that may have been in the car at the time."
Cheers
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Good morning Mr Stewart,
I have forwarded your email to Road Policing so they can answer the question missed. My apologies that this wasn’t done in the first response.
Ngā mihi,
Penni
Penni Davenport | Senior Advisor | Ministerial Services
Strategy & Partnerships |PNHQ
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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Hello again Mr Stewart,
I got a very fast response for you.
Your understanding is correct. The term “offender” in the context of
fleeing drivers means the offending driver.
Ngā mihi,
Penni
Penni Davenport | Senior Advisor | Ministerial Services
Strategy & Partnerships |PNHQ
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