Police Manuals - All Search and Surveillance Chapters - 2022
John Walter made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: John Walter
Dear New Zealand Police,
Please provide the following manuals:
ALL Search parts 01-16
ALL Surveillance parts
Yours faithfully,
John Walter.
I am a New Zealand citizen.
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 29 July 2022.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA. You can expect a response to your request on or before 26 August 2022.
Kind regards, Dylan
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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From: John Walter <[FOI #20078 email]>
Sent: Friday, 29 July 2022 9:04 PM
To: Ministerial Services <[email address]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Official Information request - Police Manuals - All Search and Surveillance Chapters - 2022
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Dear New Zealand Police,
Please provide the following manuals:
ALL Search parts 01-16
ALL Surveillance parts
Yours faithfully,
John Walter.
I am a New Zealand citizen.
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From: John Walter
Dear Ministerial Services,
I am yet to receive a response. Have these chapters been published proactively in the interim? I have not seen anything on the website.
Yours sincerely,
John.
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Kia ora John
I can confirm that a response to your request is being drafted and will then progress through our internal consultation process. I am unable to confirm a release date at this stage.
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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-----Original Message-----
From: John Walter <[FOI #20078 email]>
Sent: Sunday, 18 September 2022 12:50 AM
To: Ministerial Services <[email address]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: OIA Acknowledgement IR-01-22-22523
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Dear Ministerial Services,
I am yet to receive a response. Have these chapters been published proactively in the interim? I have not seen anything on the website.
Yours sincerely,
John.
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Tēnā koe John
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request below, received by New Zealand Police on 29 July 2022.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA. You can expect a response to your request on or before 26 August 2022.
Kind regards, Dylan
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe John
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 29 July 2022.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in providing you with this
response.
Ngā mihi
Sarah
Ministerial Services | Police National Headquarters
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subject to the provisions of section 50 of the Policing Act 2008, which
creates an offence to have unlawful possession of Police property. If you
are not the intended recipient of this message or have received this
message in error, you must not peruse, use, distribute or copy this
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
Also, is it just me or does it seem odd that the documents that have a "Printed on" date included at the end were all printed over a year before you even sent your request?
All the "Search" documents with one of these dates were apparently printed on 08/06/2021, and all the "Surveillance" documents with a specified date were apparently printed on 12/07/2021.
These dates look to me like they were generated automatically when these documents were extracted from NZ Police's "Police Instructions" intranet site, so I don't expect they would have been tampered with in some way. I've seen printed dates specified in the same format for many other Police Manual chapters that have been released, though I don't think I've seen a time discrepancy this large before.
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I see NZ Police has decided to withhold some parts of these documents under section 6(c) of the Official Information Act. I recommend you complain to the Ombudsman about these decisions to withhold information.
NZ Police often makes inconsistent and poorly justified decisions to withhold information under this section of the OIA, and I suspect many of them would not hold up under scrutiny from the Ombudsman.
As an example to help you with your complaint, NZ Police has withheld several parts of the "Part 5 - Carrying out search powers with or without warrants" document under this section. However, in June 2020 NZ Police released an earlier version of this document in full, which including all the parts that have been withheld in your request except for those in the "Carrying out the search of a cell phone" section, which does not appear to have existed in the 2020 version.
The neighbouring information does not appear to have changed since 2020, so it's quite likely that NZ Police has decided to withhold this information from you after having released it to someone else previously. I'm certain such behaviour would not withstand scrutiny from the Ombudsman.
This 2020 OIA request was not made on FYI, but its response has been archived publicly on policypolicy.nz here: https://policepolicy.nz/policies/search-...
You may also find it useful to reference the Ombudsman's guideline on section 6 refusals: https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/reso...
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