Dear Mr Francis

I refer to your request for the following information:

 

Have Police used the publication "Child Development" as a guide to how
child witnesses should be interviewed? (This publication was cited by
Police in its response to me dated 1 November 2016.
See [1] https://fyi.org.nz/request/4722-intervie....)
If so, please provide me with an electronic copy of this publication.

What risks or potential risks have Police identified in regards to
information obtained from child witnesses that have been, or are,
interviewed five times?

Are Detective Inspector David Kirby and Detective Inspector Craig Scott
aware of any child witnesses that were interviewed five times in 2016? If
so, what was the reason for the child witness(es) to be interviewed five
times?

Police is preparing a response to your request but further consultation is
required in order to finalise some aspects of the response. Because of the
need to further consult, I have been asked to notify you that Police
requires an extension of the time frame in which to respond to your
request. Police requires until 12 May 2017 to finalise its response but
will try to get the reply to you earlier if possible.

I have also been asked to apologise to you for this delay and remind you
of your right to complain to the Ombudsman about the delay.

Yours sincerely

 

Teresa McMahon

Ministerial Services , Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth
Street, Wellington, [2]www.police.govt.nz

 

 

 

 

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