29 March 2023
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INFORMATION REQUEST
Next steps for the Police response to the OPC/IPCA report
Deadline: 18 October 2022
Date of Response: 18 October 2022
Purpose
1. The purpose of this paper is to provide an update on the response to issues
arising from the
Joint inquiry by the Independent Police Conduct Authority and
the Privacy Commissioner into Police conduct when photographing members of
the public (the OPC and IPCA report).
2. s 9(2)(g)(i)
Executive Summary
3. At this stage, based on preliminary analysis, Police broadly accepts most of the
recommendations from the OPC and IPCA report. s 9(2)(h)
4. s 9(2)(g)(i)
5. s 9(2)(g)(i)
Police has developed a comprehensive programme of work to address the
broader issues around data collection, use and retention that were identified in
the OPC and IPCA report.
6. Police is aiming to have preliminary advice to you by mid-December.
Recommendations
Police recommends that you:
a) s 9(2)(h)
b) s 9(2)(h)
c)
note Police has begun a programme of work to address the broader issues
identified in the OPC and IPCA report
d)
note that Police wil provide you with further advice by mid-December.
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9. s 9(2)(h)
10. s 9(2)(g)(i)
s 9(2)(g)(i)
12. Intelligence gathering through photographs has proven to be evidential y
important to investigations. Photographs are often the best method of capturing
who is at a scene or location at a relevant time and may be the only opportunity
for capturing detail that, while not immediately consequential, may later become
crucial evidential information or intelligence.
13. s 9(2)(h)
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s 9(2)(g)(i)
There is a programme of work to address the other recommendations 22. s 9(2)(h)
Police is
currently working to respond to the wide-ranging concerns and required actions
to improve Police’s collection practice. Significant improvements wil be required
to training, process and procedure, policy and communications.
23. Police had already started addressing some of these concerns in response to
the Compliance Notice issued in December 2021. Additional work is now
underway to respond to the recommendations in the report. For example, Police
is currently developing privacy training for frontline officers about the Privacy Act
2020, including exceptions to the principles and their requirements. This is
expected to be available for staff in the form of interim guidance by 20 October
2022, with formal learning products being rolled out across Police until December
2023 s 9(2)(h)
Next steps 24. s 9(2)(g)(i)
25. Police wil keep you updated on the programme of work to respond to and
address the remaining recommendations in the OPC and IPCA report.
Jeremy Wood, Executive Director, Policy and
Reviewed by
s 9(2)(a)
Partnerships
Approved by Jevon McSkimming, Deputy Commissioner
s 9(2)(a)
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