In the 2013 Briefing to Incoming Ministers there's a chart with the structure of Immigration NZ. Inside the Intelligence Risk & Integrity Division (IRID) there's the intelligence and risk business unit. Inside here there are three different units that may be one of the units that IPG split into. These are the:

* Client profiling unit
* Immigration intelligence unit
* Risk assessment team

Suspicions would be increased if someone could find an organizational map of Immigration NZ from before the IPG split that showed that these units did not exist. I would hazard a guess to say that it is one of these three groups that IPB refers applications that they deem of particular risk.

This is pre the call, but upon doing some more research I found a slideshow with some more information on what the Intelligence and Risk Unit does. The slideshow is here: http://www.baliprocess.net/files/NZ%20Im...

Notable is that the information in the slideshow seems to lead credence to the theory that:

* the Client Profiling Unit develops the profiles that IPB relies upon, and that
* the Risk Assessment Team is where applications that are deemed to risky for IPB are referred to.

Pasted below is what I found from the slideshow:

"The Intelligence & Risk Unit is the group that Shaun Driscoll manages. It essentially consists of four service delivery teams and one project team.
The Unit is recently formed and it has brought together a group of services that had previously been spread far and wide across INZ. The new grouping recognises the important synergies between risk identification and profiling and risk assessment, and the essential role that intelligence and information collection should play in these processes.
These functions are highly complimentary and should be inter-dependent if quality outcomes are to be achieved. The structure recognised the value of quality information.
Our Intelligence Unit has been structured in a way that recognises the importance of developing and maintaining a detailed strategic picture and at the same time, makes resources available to provide tactical intelligence support to our operational units and to the wider INZ team.
To compliment the work of our Intelligence Analysts, we have recently established an Intelligence Collections and liaison Unit that will have responsibility for developing a stronger information management and information collection culture across INZ. The team will work closely with all onshore and offshore branches to ensure that relevant information is collated in a timely manner, enabling it to be analysed and used in the various decision-making and risk management processes. It will also manage our relationship with other government agencies and international partners.
The Client Profiling Unit maintains the INZ Risk Profiling System and ensures that Risk Profiles are continuously updated and relevant to the various INZ processes that rely on them. Clearly their relationships with the Intelligence Unit and the Intelligence Collection and liaison Unit are very important.
The Risk Assessment Team is responsible for conducting risk assessment on all visa and refugee applications that are assessed as potentially posing a high risk to New Zealand. Again they work closely with the other teams to ensure they have all necessary information available for the assessment process.
Finally, we are responsible for the delivery of the Pacific Regional Immigration Identity Project (PRIIP) and the Pacific Intelligence Officer Project (INTEL). I will talk a little more about it shortly."

This OIA request has been answered, but they sent the email to this OIA request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/1954-review-o... (see the email of the December 05).

It confirms that the second entity inside IPG was the Risk Assessment Team, which now exists inside the Intelligence, Risk and Integrity Division. The redaction of this information from the original OIA response was probably just overzealous redaction, esp given that the Risk Assessment Team is listed on the INZ structure chart.