Dear Mr Harris

Thank you for your email, which has been forwarded to the correct
department for follow-up.

Kind regards,

PUBLIC AFFAIRS TEAM
NZ POLICE

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To: OIA requests at New Zealand Police <[New Zealand Police request email]>
From: Alex Harris <[OIA #2097 email]>
Date: 11/10/2014 12:41PM
Subject: Official Information Act request - Statistical information on
success of surveillance warrants

Dear New Zealand Police,

Section 59 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 requires an agency
which has been granted a surveillance warrant to file a report to the
issuing judge (or court) within a month of the conclusion of the
warrant. Section 59(2) requires that the report contain certain
information. I would like to request the following information under the
OIA:

* For the last ten s59 reports filed by police:
  - the number of them where carrying out the activities authorised by
the surveillance device warrant resulted in obtaining evidential
material;
 - the number of them where the evidential material obtained as a result
of carrying out the activities authorised by the warrant was evidential
material specified in the warrant in accordance with section 55(3)(e);
- the number of them where criminal proceedings have been brought or are
under consideration as a result of evidential material obtained under
the warrant;

I am not interested in any details of the warrants themselves, their
subjects, the crimes they were issued for or any charges filed. I am
seeking only statistical information on the success or otherwise of
those warrants.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about
this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the
fyi.org.nz website.

With regards to s12 of the OIA, I am an NZ citizen and in NZ.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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