IR-01-22-25762
10 November 2022
Harold
fyi-request- @requests.fyi.org.nz
Dear Harold
Request for information
Thank you for your request dated 18 August 2022 asking for further documents relating to
the Police-led disengagement programme, ‘He Aranga Ake’. Your request has been
considered in accordance with the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA).
Your request was for the following:
1. He Aranga Ake Working Group Terms of Reference
2. The Business Case
3. The Privacy Impact Assessment
4. Any presentations or reports submitted to the DPMC Counter Terrorism
Coordination Committee or Security Intel igence Board on the topic of He Aranga
Ake and its development, dated since the beginning of August 2021
5. If any feedback on He Aranga Ake has been received from the Christchurch
Royal Commission of Inquiry ministerial advisory group Kāpuia, I would like to
request copies of it (e.g. a letter from the group containing feedback, or records of
a meeting where feedback was supplied)
6. If any feedback on He Aranga Ake has been received from the Police Muslim
Communities Reference Group, I would like to request copies of it as wel
Police refuses this request under section 18(f) as the information cannot be made
available without substantial collation or research. The information you have sought in
this request and in two previous He Aranga Ake requests is very detailed, covering
operational matters and requires substantial col ation and oversight due to the subject
matter.
You have made a significant number of requests about the national security picture in
New Zealand through the FYI website. For this reason, on 15 September 2022 Inspector
de Bes emailed you and offered to talk with you to understand what you what you
wanted to know about this part of the national security response. Phone calls are often a
helpful way to determine how best to assist requesters with their request and
understanding if the information is sought to help with research or media articles to
inform the public. She has not had a response from you.
The time and work involved in responding to your requests has had a significant and
unreasonable impact on the resources available to carry out Police’s other operations,
and the current request presents a similar potential burden. Police has considered fixing
a charge, extending the time limit for responding, or consulting with you, but has
concluded that, in all the circumstances, these steps would not assist to enable Police to
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grant your request. When you were emailed clarification as also sought under section 12
of the OIA. Given this work is designed to address one area of our national security
preventative response, we would like to establish that you satisfy the legislative criteria
which applies to those seeking to make an official information request in New Zealand.
Again no reply has been received from you.
At this point in time, Police are unable to progress this response.
You have the right, under section 28(3) of the OIA, to ask the Ombudsman to review my
decision if you are not satisfied with the way your request has been responded to.
Yours sincerely
Sean Hansen
Detective Superintendent
New Zealand Police
