IR-01-23-34099
27 November 2023
Joshua Rogers
[FYI request #24526 email]
Tēnā koe Joshua
Request for information
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request of 25 October 2023, in
which you asked for information regarding Shoplifting Jobs in Hamilton. You requested
the following:
Could you please provide a breakdown of the fol owing in an excel format.
Al shoplifting cases in Hamilton from the period 01/01/2018-current with the
following sections:
- Date & time of event
- Date & time of report
- Location
- CARD event number or file number (or both if application)
- Reporting method (111, CRL/105, Online, Auror)
- Outcome of case (charged, diversion, not charged, no outcome, referred to TPO
etc)
- Response time by police if 111
- Job result code if 111 (K9, K6, K1)
- Any further information available and relevant.
Police publishes summary statistics on victimisations including shoplifting. These
statistics can be viewed and downloaded online from policedata.nz
(https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publications-statistics/data-and-
statistics/policedatanz).
A victimisation counts each occasion of a person being victimised for each given type of
offence division. Victimisations are classified according to the most serious offences
within an offence division.
You have asked for additional detailed information in relation to shoplifting victimisations.
I considered the possibility of fulfil ing your request at an individual unit record level, so as
to provide
date and time of event/report and
response time by police if 111 information.
However, I have determined that it is appropriate to withhold this level of detail pursuant
to section 9(2)(a) of the OIA,
to protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of
deceased natural persons. Police considers the interests requiring protection by
withholding the information are not outweighed by any public interest in release of the
information.
While I cannot meet your exact request, I am able to provide the attached table of
reported victimisations for Shoplifting offences in Hamilton Police Area for the period from
January 2018 to September 2023, by reported month.
Police do not consistently record the reporting method in a directly accessible field for
extraction, however it is possible to identify those that are reported via the third-party
Auror and I have provided that. Due to the substantial amount of work that would be
required to research and col ate the further information you have requested, I am refusing
your request for further reporting method details under section 18(f) of the OIA. I have
considered whether charging or extending the timeframe for responding to your request
would help, as required by section 18A of the OIA. However, because this information is
not recorded in a consistent manner it would require manual inspection of each case.
Rather than refusing your request for information about
response time by Police if 111
because it is not possible to identify just those events that originate from a 111 cal , I have
provided the median Emergency Response Duration in minutes for events flagged as P1
(emergency event) from acceptance to closure of the event.
Please note that as part of its commitment to openness and transparency, Police
proactively releases some information and documents that may be of interest to the
public. Therefore, an anonymised version of this response may be publicly released on
the New Zealand Police website.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision if you are not satisfied
with the response to your request. Information about how to make a complaint is available
a
t: www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
I trust this information is sufficient for your purposes. If you have any questions regarding
this data, please feel free to contact me via [email address].
Yours sincerely
Zane Kearns
Director (Acting)
Performance and Data
New Zealand Police
