Evaluation of the 2009 Napier shooting, including post-event evaluations of both the Police and Defence Force response
Alex Hill made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Alex Hill
Dear New Zealand Police,
The Napier shootings, which occurred from the 7th to the 9th of May 2009, was no doubt a large operation; utilising many Police assets, in addition to Defence assets, also.
I would like to request the following information under, and in accordance with the Official Information Act 1982:
With relation to the 2009 Napier shooting, in which a police officer was slain:
1.0 - In the case that a report by any member(s) of the Police wrote a post-event review, or evaluation:
1.1 - A copy of any, and all, reports published internally by the New Zealand Police, evaluating the Police response to the shooting event;
1.2 - A copy of any, ann all, reports published internally by the New Zealand Police, evaluating the New Zealand Defence Force response to the shooting event;
2.0 - With relation to the timeline of events that occurred during the Police operational response to the Napier shooting:
2.1 - A timeline of events that occurred during the event; which should include:
2.1.1 - All known actions undertaken by the Jan Molenaar (the Offender);
2.1.2 - All known actions undertaken by the New Zealand Police;
2.1.3 - All known actions undertaken by the New Zealand Defence Force, including the Air Force, the Army, or the Navy.
It is also understood that the shooting event required extra support from other sections of the New Zealand Police. With this context I request:
3.0 - With further relation to the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS):
3.1 - What other AOS units (apart from the Napier unit), were requested to attend; further
3.1.1 - The individual squad personnel numbers that responded;
3.2 - When each non-Napier AOS unit was requested to respond to Napier;
3.3 - When each AOS unit was 'released', or 'dismissed' from the response to Napier;
4.0 - With further relation to the Special Tactics Group (STG):
4.1 - What STG units were requested to attend; further
4.1.1 - The squad personnel numbers that responded;
4.2 - When each STG unit was requested to attend;
4.3 - When each STG unit was released from the scene in Napier; and
4.4 - The chain of command that authorised the mobilisation of the STG;
5.0 - With further relation to the Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB):
5.1 - The amount of detectives and support personnel brought to the operation;
Further, I also request to know:
6.1 - Any further sections of the New Zealand Police that assisted in the response to the shootings;
It is understood that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) provided assistance to the civil power during this event, including using a NZ Light Armoured Vehicle to retrieve the body of a slain police officer. With this context I request to know:
7.1 - When assistance was sought from the NZDF, by whom, and in what capability;
7.2 - What assistance was actually delivered to the Police by the NZDF; and
7.3 - When the NZDF were released from the scene;
As this OIA request is substantial and may require extra time to collate the information, I am prepared to extend the timeframe within the bounds of the Official Information Act if requested from your office.
I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Any responses to this request will automatically be forwarded to me by the fyi.org.nz website. All correspondance will be logged, and automatically be made public.
With regards to Section 12 of the Official Information Act 1982, I meet the criteria to make an OIA request, on the grounds that I am a New Zealand citizen, currently living in New Zealand.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Hill
New Zealand Police
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From: Alex Hill <[FOI #4408 email]>
Date: 09/08/2016 05:59PM
Subject: Official Information request - Evaluation of the 2009 Napier
shooting, including post-event evaluations of both the Police and Defence
Force response
Dear New Zealand Police,
The Napier shootings, which occurred from the 7th to the 9th of May 2009,
was no doubt a large operation; utilising many Police assets, in addition
to Defence assets, also.
I would like to request the following information under, and in accordance
with the Official Information Act 1982:
With relation to the 2009 Napier shooting, in which a police officer was
slain:
1.0 - In the case that a report by any member(s) of the Police wrote a
post-event review, or evaluation:
1.1 - A copy of any, and all, reports published internally by the New
Zealand Police, evaluating the Police response to the shooting event;
1.2 - A copy of any, ann all, reports published internally by the New
Zealand Police, evaluating the New Zealand Defence Force response to the
shooting event;
2.0 - With relation to the timeline of events that occurred during the
Police operational response to the Napier shooting:
2.1 - A timeline of events that occurred during the event; which should
include:
2.1.1 - All known actions undertaken by the Jan Molenaar (the Offender);
2.1.2 - All known actions undertaken by the New Zealand Police;
2.1.3 - All known actions undertaken by the New Zealand Defence Force,
including the Air Force, the Army, or the Navy.
It is also understood that the shooting event required extra support from
other sections of the New Zealand Police. With this context I request:
3.0 - With further relation to the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS):
3.1 - What other AOS units (apart from the Napier unit), were requested
to attend; further
3.1.1 - The individual squad personnel numbers that responded;
3.2 - When each non-Napier AOS unit was requested to respond to Napier;
3.3 - When each AOS unit was 'released', or 'dismissed' from the
response to Napier;
4.0 - With further relation to the Special Tactics Group (STG):
4.1 - What STG units were requested to attend; further
4.1.1 - The squad personnel numbers that responded;
4.2 - When each STG unit was requested to attend;
4.3 - When each STG unit was released from the scene in Napier; and
4.4 - The chain of command that authorised the mobilisation of the STG;
5.0 - With further relation to the Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB):
5.1 - The amount of detectives and support personnel brought to the
operation;
Further, I also request to know:
6.1 - Any further sections of the New Zealand Police that assisted in
the response to the shootings;
It is understood that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) provided
assistance to the civil power during this event, including using a NZ
Light Armoured Vehicle to retrieve the body of a slain police officer.
With this context I request to know:
7.1 - When assistance was sought from the NZDF, by whom, and in what
capability;
7.2 - What assistance was actually delivered to the Police by the NZDF;
and
7.3 - When the NZDF were released from the scene;
As this OIA request is substantial and may require extra time to collate
the information, I am prepared to extend the timeframe within the bounds
of the Official Information Act if requested from your office.
I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Any responses to this
request will automatically be forwarded to me by the fyi.org.nz website.
All correspondance will be logged, and automatically be made public.
With regards to Section 12 of the Official Information Act 1982, I meet
the criteria to make an OIA request, on the grounds that I am a New
Zealand citizen, currently living in New Zealand.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Hill
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From: Alex Hill
Dear New Zealand Police,
Pursuant to the Official Information Act I am not required to give any more information than the fact that I am a New Zealand citizen - this is required to qualify my request.
Therefore because my request was received by your office yesterday, the 9th of August, I now expect to receive the answer to my request within the timeframe provisions of the OIA. Failure to meet this timeframe, or continuing to request more information about the requestor, a complaint will be lodged with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Hill
New Zealand Police
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From: Alex Hill
Dear New Zealand Police,
By law, you are required to respond promptly to an OIA request. My request was lodged on the 9th of August, and as a request for extension was not lodged, I should have received a response by September 07.
Am I going to get a response, or do I need to contact the Office of the Ombudsman about this?
Yours faithfully,
Alex Hill
New Zealand Police
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New Zealand Police
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From: Alex Hill <[FOI #4408 email]>
Date: 08/09/2016 06:15PM
Subject: Re: NZ Police Enquiry
Dear New Zealand Police,
By law, you are required to respond promptly to an OIA request. My request
was lodged on the 9th of August, and as a request for extension was not
lodged, I should have received a response by September 07.
Am I going to get a response, or do I need to contact the Office of the
Ombudsman about this?
Yours faithfully,
Alex Hill
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From: LYNCH, Emmet
New Zealand Police
Good Morning Alex,
My apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
On the 29 August, I made an electronic file note on the internal OIA
system in respect of a time extension due to the huge volume of material
sought and that which is contained on the file. I mistakenly thought this
was also sent directly to you; I now know that not to be the way the
system works.
I am still working my way through the considerable amount of information
on the file so as to accurately respond and provide documentation
requested.
I will need an extension and am having discussions today with a number of
management staff to ascertain a new date for the provision of this
information.
Thanks for your continued patience.
Regards
Emmet Lynch
Detective Sergeant | Organised Crime Squad - Hawkes Bay CIB | New Zealand
Police
P +64 6 831 0712 | Ext: 67012 | M +64 21 191 3413 | E
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Eastern District Headquarters, Dalton Street, NAPIER, PO Box 245, NAPIER
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From: LYNCH, Emmet
New Zealand Police
Alex,
Can I please confirm that you received my earlier message as below.
Thanks
Emmet Lynch
Detective Sergeant | Organised Crime Squad - Hawkes Bay CIB | New Zealand
Police
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From: LYNCH, Emmet
Sent: Friday, 9 September 2016 9:19 a.m.
To: '[FOI #4408 email]'
<[FOI #4408 email]>
Subject: OIA Request - 16/7327
Good Morning Alex,
My apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
On the 29 August, I made an electronic file note on the internal OIA
system in respect of a time extension due to the huge volume of material
sought and that which is contained on the file. I mistakenly thought this
was also sent directly to you; I now know that not to be the way the
system works.
I am still working my way through the considerable amount of information
on the file so as to accurately respond and provide documentation
requested.
I will need an extension and am having discussions today with a number of
management staff to ascertain a new date for the provision of this
information.
Thanks for your continued patience.
Regards
Emmet Lynch
Detective Sergeant | Organised Crime Squad - Hawkes Bay CIB | New Zealand
Police
P +64 6 831 0712 | Ext: 67012 | M +64 21 191 3413 | E
[7][email address]
Eastern District Headquarters, Dalton Street, NAPIER, PO Box 245, NAPIER
4110 [8]www.police.govt.nz
Safer Communities Together
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From: Alex Hill
Dear LYNCH, Emmet,
I understand the reasons surrounding me not receiving information. I am flexible with a time frame extension of up to one month, I hope that's enough.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Hill
From: LYNCH, Emmet
New Zealand Police
Thanks Alex for your email.
As previously stated, and as you will no doubt realise, the significant volume of material to review has been the main cause of the initial delays.
I will have your OIA request completed by Friday 7 October 2016.
Regards
Emmet Lynch
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From: Alex Hill
Good afternoon Detective Sergeant Lynch,
I wish to remind you that today is the day that we both agreed the OIA request will be fulfilled.
As it is currently 3:30pm, I wish to inform you that if I do not receive the information requested before days end I will be launching a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman. I trust that you will will fulfil your obligations.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Hill
From: LYNCH, Emmet
New Zealand Police
Thank you for your email.
I am currently out of the office until Tuesday 25 October 2016.
During this absence, I will not be able to respond to your communication.
If any matters are of an urgent nature please contact the Napier Police
Station on (06) 8310700.
From: Alex Hill
Dear New Zealand Police,
OIA Request Reference: OIA Request - 16/7327
On the 9th of August 2016 I launched an OIA request surrounding the 2007 Napier Siege. Initially, this request was not answered. Under the regulations of the Official Information Act, I should have received the answer to my request no later than 7 September 2016 - I did not receive any reply whatsoever.
On the 8th of September I followed up my initial request, to which I got a reply from Detective Sergeant Lynch of the Napier Organised Crime Squad. She apologised about an error that lead to me not receiving a request for extension. We agreed that the information would be collated and given to me by the 7th of October (today). As it is almost day's end, I emailed Detective Sergeant Lynch to remind her about her obligation - to which I received an automatic reply stating that she is out of the office until the 25th of October.
From my understanding, this means that the New Zealand Police will not be upholding their obligations under the Official Information Act to fulfil my request.
From here, unless you can get this information to me before days end, I will be lodging a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsmen about this request. Considering a request for extension was not received before the initial timeframe closed, I believe this is very lenient.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Hill
New Zealand Police
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From: Alex Hill
Dear New Zealand Police,
I received an email from your office on the 7th saying that my OIA request had been forwarded to the District Command Centre for urgent follow up. It is now more than 10 days later and I am still waiting for a reply.
This OIA request is far too long overdue. A complaint has been lodged with the Ombudsman.
Alex Hill
New Zealand Police
Dear Alex,
You can expect a reply within 20 working days of receipt of your request,
unless an extension of that time frame is notified.
For more information I have provided you a link below.
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From: Alex Hill <[FOI #4408 email]>
Date: 18/10/2016 02:54PM
Subject: Re: NZ Police Enquiry
Dear New Zealand Police,
I received an email from your office on the 7th saying that my OIA request
had been forwarded to the District Command Centre for urgent follow up. It
is now more than 10 days later and I am still waiting for a reply.
This OIA request is far too long overdue. A complaint has been lodged with
the Ombudsman.
Alex Hill
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From: Alex Hill
Dear LYNCH, Emmet,
I contacted you on October 7 regarding my OIA request. After our prior discussions, we agreed that October 7 would be when I will have received a reply by. On October 7, I emailed you notifying you that today is the last day and if I do not receive a reply, a complaint with the Ombudsman would be laid. I received a automated response from you, detailing you are out of the office until October 25 (today).
I wish to notify you, that because of the undue delay in receiving my request, I have laid a complaint with the office of the Ombudsman. I am disappointed with the New Zealand Police's response thus far.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Hill
From: MCMAHON, Teresa
New Zealand Police
Dear Mr Hill
I have the reply to your information request about the Napier shootings
here but wonder if you could provide me with an address to which the
material can be posted as there is a fairly substantial amount of
material.
Teresa McMahon
Ministerial Services , Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth
Street, Wellington, [1]www.police.govt.nz
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Dear Mr Hill
I did ask for a postal address but trust this email will be sufficient to
provide the material prepared in response to your OIA request.
Ministerial Services , Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth
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From: MCMAHON, Teresa
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Teresa McMahon
Ministerial Services , Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth
Street, Wellington, [1]www.police.govt.nz
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From: Alex Hill
Good morning Teresa,
Firstly, thank you for sending me some information.
I made this OIA request through the website FYI.org.nz, which makes the information viewable on a public system. Unfortunately, due to a system error on the website, I am unable to view these files.
If it's okay, I request for the same files sent today to be sent to a private email address. The email address is [email address].
Yours sincerely,
Alex Hill
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