Tēnā koe,

 

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Communications and Ministerial Services | Corporate Services
Ministry of Justice

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Tçnâ koe M Keefe,

 

Thank you for contacting the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry).

 

We acknowledge receipt of your request under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act).  Specifically, you requested:

 

I officially request statistical information and details of how many
people have been jailed in NZ for threatening to kill since 1980 to
present day.

Numbers of people

Courthouse of sentencing

Duration of jail term

Details of cases

 

This has been forwarded to the Regional Service Delivery unit to respond
to. 

 

The Ministry may publish the response to your request on our website. You
can expect that if the response is to be published that this will take
place at least 10 working days after the response has been sent you. Your
name and any other personal information will be withheld under Section
9(2)(a) (protect the privacy of natural persons) of the Act. If you do not
want the response to your request published on the Ministry’s website,
please contact us on receipt of this email.

 

You can expect a response by 06/05/2026.

 

 

Ngâ mihi

Ministerial Services

 

   

Communications and Ministerial Services |Corporate Services

Ministry of Justice | Tâhû o te Ture
DX Box SX 10088 | Wellington

[1]www.justice.govt.nz

 

 

 

 

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Tēnā koe M Keefe,

 

Thank you for your request of 7 April 2026, requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), statistical information and details of how
many people have been jailed in New Zealand for threatening to kill.
Specifically, you requested:

 

I officially request statistical information and details of how many
people have been jailed in NZ for threatening to kill since 1980 to
present day.

Numbers of people

Courthouse of sentencing

Duration of jail term

Details of cases

 

Section 12(2) of the Act requires that the information sought must be
“specified with due particularity”, which means the Ministry of Justice
(the Ministry) must be reasonably able to identify what information is
being requested by you.

 

In its current form, it is unclear as to what information you are seeking.
Therefore, in line with section 15(1AA) of the Act, the Ministry is
seeking to clarify your request. Please can you confirm:

 

1.     If the request includes charges of threatening GBH as these are
grouped with “threating to kill” charges and cannot be separated.

 

2.     With regards to the “duration of jail term”, we can only comment on
the sentence imposed/time sentenced and not the amount of time served.

 

We would appreciate it if you could please respond by COB 20/04/2026, with
your clarified request.

 

Please note that as the Ministry has sought to clarify your request within
the first seven working days, on receipt of the confirmed scope, the
timeline to respond to you may reset under section 15(1) of the Act.

 

You have the right under section 28 of the Act to seek a review of this
decision in the handling of your request from the Ombudsman.  The
Ombudsman’s contact details are available at:  [1]Contact the Ombudsman |
Ombudsman New Zealand.

 

Thank you for your help with this.

 

 

Ngā mihi,

  Communications and Ministerial Services | Corporate Services

Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street, Wellington (6011)

[2][email address]

[3][email address]

[4][Ministry of Justice request email]

[5]justice.govt.nz

 

 

From: [Ministry of Justice request email]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2026 10:32 am
To: Mere <[FOI #34411 email]>
Subject: Acknowledgement (ref: 131597) Numbers and information of people
jailed in NZ for threatening to. Kill in NZ

 

Tēnā koe M Keefe,

 

Thank you for contacting the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry).

 

We acknowledge receipt of your request under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act).  Specifically, you requested:

 

I officially request statistical information and details of how many
people have been jailed in NZ for threatening to kill since 1980 to
present day.

Numbers of people

Courthouse of sentencing

Duration of jail term

Details of cases

 

This has been forwarded to the Regional Service Delivery unit to respond
to. 

 

The Ministry may publish the response to your request on our website. You
can expect that if the response is to be published that this will take
place at least 10 working days after the response has been sent you. Your
name and any other personal information will be withheld under Section
9(2)(a) (protect the privacy of natural persons) of the Act. If you do not
want the response to your request published on the Ministry’s website,
please contact us on receipt of this email.

 

You can expect a response by 06/05/2026.

 

 

Ngā mihi

Ministerial Services

 

   

Communications and Ministerial Services |Corporate Services

Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
DX Box SX 10088 | Wellington

[6]www.justice.govt.nz

 

 

 

 

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