IR-01-22-2256
15 February 2022
Chuck Schooner
[FYI request #18277 email]
Dear Chuck
I refer to your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request of 21 January 2022.
My response to each of your questions can be found below.
Request: This official information act has a few parts to it but can the
relevant agencies please collaborate to provide me with the answers I
require. The main crux of this request is to the Police Commissioner and I
urge you to investigate this thoroughly.
Are you able to confirm if the NZ Police has completed any due diligence
surrounding the the mass roll out of the Experimental Gene Therapy
(Covid-19) vaccine and the potential impact of an untested gene therapy
on the New Zealand Police force. Are you able to provide me with any
and all communications/correspondence that the NZ Police has
completed in assessing the safety of the experimental gene therapy and
any agencies be it the Ministry of Health, Office of the Prime Minister or
any other agencies and the dates associated. If not can you confirm if
you have relied solely on Medsafe and their assurances that this is safe
and ushered in mandates based on reliance of this information only and
none of the police doctors have looked at this.
New Zealand Police has followed the guidance of the Government and Medsafe
in relation to the safety of COVID-19 Vaccinations.
Along with that and given the government is the main shareholder in Air
New Zealand are you able to provide the following information
- Have Air New Zealand mandated the gene therapy for their pilots
- What proportion of Air New Zealand pilots have been fully vaccinated
Police does not hold this information and Air New Zealand is not subject to the
OIA and therefore we have no means to transfer this portion of your request.
Police recommends you contact Air New Zealand directly should you still wish to
receive this information.
Recently the attached Pfizer document has been released -
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/202...
In a previous Official Information Act Request the Ministry of Health allude
to them receiving this information in a different format to meet their legal
requirements. Since this document is now out can Medsafe/Ministry of
Health please provide the above Pfizer information as per the information
below.
"Pfizer has provided the same data, albeitin a form that meets the
company’s legal obligations in New Zealand. The conclusions of
theCumulative Analysis Report are consistent with the information and
data provided by Pfizer to Medsafe as a part of its provisional consent
obligations in New Zealand.
This portion of your request has been transferred to the Ministry of Health (MOH).
You will receive a response from MOH in due course.
Are you able to confirm as the science evolves in relation to the
experimental gene therapy that the NZ Police will continue to monitor
officers and their ability to meet NZ Police Medical Standards.
Back to the police commissioner and required for comment based on the
ten pages of serious side effects that are listed in the Pfizer document
would a Police Officer be able to pass a medical because the gene
therapy is shown to list the following as serious side effects
- Embolism & thrombosis
- Cardiac
- Heart attack
- Seizures
- Neurological and more
All of these side effects occurred in the short term - so to me that would
mean that all of these sudden events could occur at anytime and happen
to active police officers.
New Zealand Police is committed to ensuring our people remain fit for work and
life. Police applies health standards to help constables to maintain a level of
fitness that will promote their resilience and reduce injury and illness throughout
their policing career.
Has a cost benefit analysis been done on mandating the vaccine for
officers - please provide any and all recommendations completed by the
police commissioner that the benefits of mandating the vaccine and
potentially losing officers outweigh the costs.
Police refuse your request for a cost benefit analysis under section 18(e) of the
OIA, as the document alleged to contain this information does not exist.
Given the force will be fully vaccinated is there a concern that the whole
force will have compromised health - would it not be wise to retain officers
and the commissioner go into bat for his employees rather than
implementing the little tinpot Mrs Gayfords mandates?
To date, the Commissioner has made no applications under section 11 of the
COVID-19 Public Health Response (Specified Work Vaccinations) Order 2021,
for an exemption for a person in order to prevent significant disruption to the
essential operations of the New Zealand Police.
As a practical example a fleet driver for Move Logistics in a 50 tonne truck
was forced off the road in the south island with heart palpitations and is in
hospital. Currently in the process of verifying this but this serves as a
warning that this is happening in a practical sense. Can the Police
Commissioner also provide the following
- Total Number of car crashes through 2020, 2021 and 2022 (to date) for
comparative purposes
- Total Number of singular car crashes
- Total Number of multiple car crashes
- Can you confirm if the Coroner assessed if any of the drivers suffered a
sudden event in advance
- If not - why not? And can an assessment be done after the fact
This portion of your request has been transferred to Waka Kotahi. You will
receive a response from Waka Kotahi in due course.
Request: Here are some examples of individual crashes this year only -
there seem to an awful lot of them in one month - coincidence
- 19 Jan car crashes into Coromandel sea
- 15 Jan one person dies Amodeo Bay
- 17 January one person dies single crash SH6 Wanaka
- 17 January one person dies single crash
- 4 January one person dead single car crash
- 10 January one person dead in single car crash Mangakino
- 15 January one person dead hitting tree Waerenga
An awful lot of single car crashes.
Further to this are also able to provide the call outs that Police, Fire and
Emergency and St John attended in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 (to date)
for cardiac events in the age group 0 - 20. Please liaise with Ministry of
Health if you require. I know of one that I have verified that has already
occurred this year. Can you also provide in the age group the vaccination
status of the person involved in the cardiac event (this won't be relevant
for the previous years).
Police refuses your request under section 18(g) of the OIA, as this is not
information Police holds.
The part of your request relating to Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ)
has been transferred to FENZ for direct response, however please note that St
John New Zealand is not subject to the OIA and therefore we have no means to
transfer this portion of the request. You could contact St John New Zealand
directly for this information.
You have the right, under section 28(3) of the OIA, to ask the Ombudsman to
review this decision if you are not satisfied with the way Police has responded to
your request. Information about how to make a complaint is available at:
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
Yours sincerely
Superintendent Russell Le Prou
Director COVID-19 Planning and Co-ordination Police National Headquarters
