Diversion and Pre-charge warnings Statistics
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From: Liam
Dear New Zealand Police,
This is a request for information, made under ss 4 and 5 of the Official Information Act 1982 (“the Act”). I therefore would like the following information;
1. How many individual cases of diversion have there been each year, for the past 5 years; and
2. How many individual pre-charge warnings have there been each year, for the past 5 years; and
3. What has been the most common charge each year, for the past 5 years; and
4. Any reports or statistics that show a collation between specific charges (like s 23 Summary Offences Act 1981) and diversion/pre-charge warnings.
5. Any reports, manuals or policy documents regarding the discretion of issuing pre-charge warnings AND diversion.
6. Any other documents relevant to the above requests.
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Yours faithfully,
Liam Stoneley
Liam left an annotation ()
Are you able to provide link please? My understanding is that Diversion is run through Police, not Courts.
From: Liam
Dear New Zealand Police,
I usually receive confirmation of receiving requests from you.
This has not occurred.
This request in now over half way through the 20 day time limit.
Yours faithfully,
Liam Stoneley
Joshua Grainger left an annotation ()
Diversion statistics by offence category are available here: http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Inde...
Joshua Grainger left an annotation ()
(Although diversion and discharge without conviction statistics aren't separated out)
New Zealand Police
Hello,
We'll check where your OIA is at.
Kind regards,
Police Public Affairs
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From: Liam Stoneley <[FOI #2768 email]>
Date: 11/06/2015 11:06PM
Subject: Re: Official Information Act request - Diversion and Pre-charge
warnings Statistics
Dear New Zealand Police,
I usually receive confirmation of receiving requests from you.
This has not occurred.
This request in now over half way through the 20 day time limit.
Yours faithfully,
Liam Stoneley
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From: MCMAHON, Teresa
New Zealand Police
Dear Mr Stoneley
I refer to the following request you made to Police on 25 May 2015:
Subject: Official Information Act request - Diversion and Pre-charge
warnings Statistics
This is a request for information, made under ss 4 and 5 of the Official
Information Act 1982 (“the Act”). I therefore would like the following
information;
1. How many individual cases of diversion have there been each year, for
the past 5 years; and
2. How many individual pre-charge warnings have there been each year, for
the past 5 years; and
3. What has been the most common charge each year, for the past 5 years;
and
4. Any reports or statistics that show a collation between specific
charges (like s 23 Summary Offences Act 1981) and diversion/pre-charge
warnings.
5. Any reports, manuals or policy documents regarding the discretion of
issuing pre-charge warnings AND diversion.
6. Any other documents relevant to the above requests.
The purpose of this email is to notify you that Police require an
extension of time in which to respond to your request, pursuant to section
15A(1) of the Official Information Act 1982, because the request
necessitates a search through a large quantity of information and
consultations such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably
be made within the original time limit.
Police require until 20 July 2015 to provide a substantive response to
your request.
You have the right to complain to the Office of the Ombudsmen about this
extension.
Yours sincerely
T McMahon
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters
PO Box 3017
Wellington
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Dear Mr Stoneley
I am writing in response to your request, dated 25 May 2015 , for
information relating to diversion and pre-charge warning statistics, made
under the Official Information Act (OIA) 1982.
Diversion
Police does not produce statistics on the number of cases of diversion.
Therefore, this part of your request is refused under section 18(g) of the
OIA, as the information is not held.
However, the number of charges prosecuted against adults where the outcome
was 'Diversion-Discharge without conviction' is available from the Justice
tables of the Statistics New Zealand website ( [1]www.stats.govt.nz ).
Pre Charge Warnings
For parts 2 and 3 of your request, below is a table showing the number of
Pre-Charge Warnings issued from October to December 2010 and for each of
the years ending 31 December 2011 to 2014 by offence division. Please note
that Pre-Charge Warnings were introduced nationally in October 2010.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |Oct-Dec|Jan-Dec|Jan-Dec|Jan-Dec|Jan-Dec|
| | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Acts intended to cause injury | 104| 593| 858| 842| 768|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Sexual assault | 0| 0| 0| 2| 2|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Dangerous/negligent acts | 1| 39| 80| 69| 30|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Abduct ion/harassment | 37| 167| 256| 299| 320|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Robbery/extortion | 1| 0| 7| 1| 0|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Unlawful entry with intent | 6| 14| 13| 14| 8|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Theft | 386| 1,978| 2,447| 2,349| 2,122|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Fraud/deception | 10| 43| 66| 74| 38|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Illicit drug offences | 244| 1,210| 1,857| 1,305| 1,279|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Prohibited/regulated weapons | 36| 172| 297| 259| 271|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Property damage | 75| 320| 469| 406| 313|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Public order offences | 2,415| 12,153| 16,914| 14,041| 8,620|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Traffic and vehicle regulatory | | | | | |
|offences | 3| 25| 26| 24| 23|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Offences against justice | 171| 757| 1,030| 940| 956|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Miscellaneous offences | 7| 92| 134| 26| 56|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Other | 0| 0| 0| 0| 1|
|--------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|TOTAL | 3,496| 17,563| 24,454| 20,651| 14,807|
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Please note that the data provided are provisional only, as they are drawn
from a dynamic operational database. These data are subject to change
over time as information is constantly updated, added or removed during
the course of active investigations.
For part 4 of your request, Police does not produce statistics on the
correlation between specific charges and diversion/pre-charge warnings.
Therefore, this part of your request is refused under section 18(g) of the
Official Information Act, as the information is not held.
Finally, for parts 5 and 6 of your request, factsheets, reports or
documents relating to Pre-Charge Warnings and Adults Diversion Schemes are
publicly available on the New Zealand Police website (
[2]www.police.govt.nz ). Therefore these parts of your request are refused
under section 18(d) of the Official Information Act, as the information is
publicly available.
Although for the reasons above not all of the information you have sought
has been provided with this letter, I trust my response is still helpful
in guiding you to online holdings for such data.
As you may already be aware, you have the right under section 28(3) of the
OIA to seek a review of my handling of your request by the Office of the
Ombudsmen.
Yours sincerely
Dr Gavin Knight
Chief Data Scientist
Strategy Group
New Zealand Police
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Thomas Roberts left an annotation ()
1 through to 4 is mainly Ministry of Justice data (since diversions are handled through the court) and are all available on NZ.Stat in the Police and Justice tables.
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