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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanessa <[FOI #18810 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2022 1:13 pm
To: Information [DPMC] <[DPMC request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Request for communication between
Jacinda Ardern, cabinet, NZ Police and Commissioner Andrew Coster

 

Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,

 

I am writing to request under the 'Official Information Act 1982' copies
of all communication, via email, telephone calls, test messages or minutes
of meetings held between the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and/or her
cabinet ministers, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster or other members of
the NZ Police/NZ Defence Force and the contents of the discussions,
emails, text messages, phone calls and minutes of meetings between the
below mentioned ODESC.

 

Communications sought above are directly related to the Wellington Protest
between 1st February 2022 and Current date of writing for transparency.
These communications requested also need to include any debriefs held
between any of the above mentioned parties of interest specifically once
the Wellington Protest ended.

 

I make reference to a statement quoted by the Prime Minister on 17th
February 2022 at a press conference and published by Newshub.

(
[3]https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...
)

 

""I'll be absolutely consistent on this: the way that the protest and the
occupation are managed is for the police," she said.

 

"It is so important that you don't have politicians stepping into the
space where we're seen to give instruction on that. It's a convention we
won't break."

"A spokesperson for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)
confirmed to Newshub the Officials Committee for Domestic and External
Security Coordination (ODESC) was convening on Thursday.

ODESC provides strategic advice to the Prime Minister on security and
intelligence matters. The group includes bosses from police, the two spy
agencies, foreign affairs, and the Defence Force."

 

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster was interviewed by Jack Tame of Q&A
where a link to the video interview was posted on their Facebook page
07/03/2022.

( [4]https://www.facebook.com/NZQandA/videos/... )

 

He was asked " Have you spoken to the Prime Minister after Wednesday?"  (I
make reference to this being Wednesday 2nd March 2022 when NZ Police shut
down the protest"

To which Andrew Coster replied " Of course we've spoken regularly"

 

It is imperative that New Zealand know the nature of the communications
between all parties, especially between Jacinda Ardern as our Prime
Minster, and Andrew Coster our Police Commissioner, that there was no
cross over that would be deemed a conflict of interest or that Jacinda
Ardern had any unreasonable and unjustifiable influence of the NZ Police
operations over the course of the Wellington Protest, especially since
videos have emerged of Police Brutality against her constituents.

 

I appreciate your prompt response to this request as it is a matter of
public interest.

Yours faithfully,

 

Vanessa Warren

 

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Kia ora koe,

 

Please see the attached letter regarding your recent OIA request.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Ministerial Coordinator
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Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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On behalf of Raj Nahna, I attach a letter in response to your OIA request.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Private Secretary (Executive Support)

Office of the Prime Minister

Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

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Tēnā koe,

 

On behalf of Raj Nahna, I attach a letter in response to your OIA request.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Private Secretary (Executive Support)

Office of the Prime Minister

Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

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