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John Smith made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: John Smith
Dear New Zealand Police,
Greetings
Could you please supply to me all information held by you, (NZ police) on how a person has to be arrested by the police.
Thanks
Yours faithfully,
John Smith
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe John
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request
below, received by New Zealand Police on 25 July 2022.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA. You can expect a
response to your request on or before 22 August 2022.
Kind regards, Dylan
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
NZ Police was legally obliged to respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable, and no later than yesterday. I recommend you complain to the Ombudsman about this unlawful delay.
If it's useful, I have a template I use for complaining to the Ombudsman about unlawfully overdue responses to OIA requests: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ad2Z...
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Mōrena John
I refer to your request of 25 July 2022 for the following information:
Could you please supply to me all information held by you, (NZ police) on
how a person has to be arrested by the police.
Unfortunately we were not be able to meet the due date of 22 August 2022.
I can confirm that your request has been compiled and is currently
progressing through our internal consultation process.
Although I am unable to confirm a release date at this stage, I expect you
will receive a response within three days.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in providing you with a response
to your query. We are endeavouring to provide this to you as soon as
possible.
Ngā mihi
Julián (he/him)
Ministerial Services Advisor
NZ Police National Headquarters Wellington
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From: Ministerial Services <[email address]>
Sent: Monday, 25 July 2022 11:42 AM
To: John Smith <[FOI #20010 email]>
Subject: OIA Acknowledgement IR-01-22-21705
Tēnā koe John
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request
below, received by New Zealand Police on 25 July 2022.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA. You can expect a
response to your request on or before 22 August 2022.
Kind regards, Dylan
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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Tēnā koe John
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 13 July 2022.
Ngā mihi
Jeremy
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
It's interesting that NZ Police took 5 working days longer than legally allowed in order to tell you that the information you have requested is publicly available on the NZ Police website... when it has been published there since you made your request.
The document in question was extracted from NZ Police's systems on 1 August 2022, one week after NZ Police received your request.
The NZ Police website only notes the month on which a page was published. However, based on my automated monitoring of the Police Manual chapters listing page on the NZ Police website, I believe this document was published there on either the 8th of 9th of August.
Therefore I believe it would clearly have been reasonably practicable for NZ Police to have responded to your request sooner. If you decide to complain to the Ombudsman, I would recommend you consider including this as one of the grounds of your complaint.
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
The "Arrest and Detention" chapter of the Police Manual, which clearly falls within the scope of your request, has been released previously under the OIA.
In full in November 2016:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/4727-police-a...
In part in July 2022:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/19749-all-res...
There are differences between the full chapter released in 2016 and the excerpt released in July 2022, so it's possible changes have also been made to other parts of the chapter since it was last released in full.
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