Dear New Zealand Police,

Please provide basic information on the Criminal Charging Advisory Panel. (CCAP) There is very little in the public area, and in legislation.

Please provide prosecuting agency’s statutory function documents and enforcement priority statements.

Please provide a time-line naming the panel members from 2000 to present. Also attendance\ non-attendance of meetings, and any 'other' informal gatherings, or being 'formal' representation of the the panel. Include any guests/attendees, or advisors that were not members but present at the panels/discussions.

Provide reporting channels (who do they report to), and where the panel sits in the policing community, who manages and sets the panel meetings, who funds it, who has authority over it, what media channels do they use to release decisions, etc

What communication is allowed from the people who are being discussed, victims, or representatives? Are staff/victim/support statements allowed? Who (positions, not person) creates the documents that the panel sees?

Please provide the panel's guidance and protocol documents, and panel evaluation criteria/methodology. Any further documents on responsibilities, and remunerations, prosecuting prosecution policy set out for different actions and criteria for the use of each enforcement tool, based on a clear understanding of the tool’s purpose. Provide the documents for guide in using the public interest test, public interest test (state it is a direct copy from the SGDG, justice interest test, etc

Please ask for any excusing from panel members, or conflicts of interests during the period of time, 2000 to present.

Provide a breakdown of the cases of the panel. Do not include any identifying information.
You could breakdown this information into quantifiable data, organised by year. But must include overall number, number dealing with staff, those also investigated by the IPCA, number placed into the system but were not put in front of panel, those cases put for charge,enforcement action advised, those cases put for employment matter, those cases not charged or employment matter, offence types. Include any data that is available to you in that quantitative form that has been produced from the CCAP information.

Please include any reviews, or informal/informal enquires that has included the area and authority of the CCAP, include the required guidelines for the risk commonly but not always called 'netwidening'.

You may refer to but only link to publicly available documents such as Solicitor-Generals-Prosecution-Guidelines-2025, etc.

Yours faithfully,
David Glass