're: Karanga Tangaroa - Copies of police operation instructions and copies of any police notebooks'.
T K Pritchard made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
Response to this request is long overdue. By law New Zealand Police should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.
From: T K Pritchard
Dear New Zealand Police,
I am a New Zealand Citizen.
I am requesting information relating to the police presence at the Karanga Tangaroa event at Mission Bay, Auckland on 17 November at 9am. This includes, but is not limited to, copies of police operation instructions and copies of any police notebooks.
Thank you
T K Pritchard
From: THOMSON, Raewyn
New Zealand Police
Dear T K Pritchard
On behalf of the Commissioner I acknowledge receipt of your request of 30
November 2016. You request information relating to the Police presence
at the Karanga Tangaroa event at Mission Bay, Auckland on 17 November at
9am.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the Official Information Act
1982.
Yours sincerely
[1]New Zealand Raewyn Thomson
Police Logo Ministerial Services Advisor | Ministerial Services | New
Zealand Police
E: [2][email address]
Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth Street,
Thorndon, PO Box 3017, Wellington 6011
[3]www.police.govt.nz
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From: GRAHAM, Vaughn
New Zealand Police
Dear T K, Pritchard,
Request for Information
I refer to your Official Information Request which was submitted online on
30/11/2016, in which you requested ‘information relating to the police
presence at the Karanga Tangaroa event at Mission Bay, Auckland on 17
November at 9am. This includes, but is not limited to, copies of police
operation instructions and copies of any police notebooks.’
I have assessed your request. In order for NZ Police to satisfy itself
that you are eligible under section 12 of the Official Information Act
1982, Police requests that you provide supporting information as to
eligibility, such as your New Zealand postal address, personal email
address indicating a NZ domain, NZ phone number on which I can contact
you, or any identity documentation. I would be happy to receive further
information by your replying to this email address:
[1][email address] at your convenience.
For your information, Police relies on the following guidance provided by
the Ombudsman:
With requests submitted by post, the origin of the request will usually be
clear from the post mark, and the requester will normally provide a return
address, which should together provide sufficient assurance that the
requester is in New Zealand, and therefore eligible.
With requests submitted by email, twitter or Facebook, it may not be
apparent that the requester satisfies the eligibility requirements under
the OIA. Agencies are entitled to make reasonable enquiries to satisfy
themselves that a requester is eligible to make an OIA request. Often
provision of a New Zealand postal address will suffice. This information
can be conveyed, if requested, via personal message. The working day count
won’t start until it is clear that the request is made by a person who is
eligible to do so.
Agencies must be mindful of their obligation to provide reasonable
assistance to a person who wants to make an official information request,
but hasn’t made one in compliance with the legislation.
Yours sincerely,
Inspector Vaughn Graham | Acting District Operations Support | Auckland
City District
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addressee only and may contain privileged information. It may also be
subject to the provisions of section 50 of the Policing Act 2008, which
creates an offence to have unlawful possession of Police property. If you
are not the intended recipient of this message or have received this
message in error, you must not peruse, use, distribute or copy this
message or any of its contents.
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From: T K Pritchard
Dear GRAHAM, Vaughn,
In response to your request for 'supporting information' to satisfy NZ Police as as to my eligibility under section 12 of the Official Information Act, my NZ phone number is [mobile number redacted].
Yours sincerely,
T K Pritchard
From: GRAHAM, Vaughn
New Zealand Police
Dear T K Pritchard,
Letter of response attached.
Kind regards,
Vaughn Graham | Acting District Operations Support | Auckland City District
[email address] | 9th Floor, Auckland Central
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
I think the police are being unnecessarily onerous here. They may be requiring this degree of evidence that you're eligible under the OIA as a delaying or blocking tactic.
It's not standard practice. I've seen many OIA requests made to the police via this website, including one I've made myself, where no such requests for evidence of eligibility were made.
The bar is incredibly low anyway. For example, any person in New Zealand is eligible to make a request under the OIA.
Also, at least in 2014, police internal guidelines for responding to OIA requests specified that "should Police receive a request for information from an individual or organisation outside New Zealand, every endeavour should still be made to comply with the request."
(See "Who can make a request?" in this document: https://fyi.org.nz/request/1748/response...)
In any case, I'm in New Zealand. And I think this information should be released. So even if you aren't eligible (though I expect you will be) that should be enough for the police to consider this request.
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