Good afternoon Mr Johnston,

Thank you for your email. Customs acknowledges receipt of your request under the Official Information Act 1982. Customs will respond as soon as is practical and no later than 18 April 2017.

Kind regards,

Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing team

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Good afternoon Mr Johnston,

Thank you for your request dated 17 March 2017 to the New Zealand Customs Service (Customs) in which you request the number of prosecutions and other law enforcement actions (eg. warnings) that resulted from those interceptions. Your request refers to an earlier Official Information Act (OIA) request to Customs in which you asked for, and were provided with, the number of interceptions of six specified drugs that were imported through the mail system, for the years 2012 – 2016. In total there were 4,803 interceptions.

Initial analysis of your request indicates that Customs have progressed approximately 200-300 of these interceptions to prosecution.

In order to determine the law enforcement activity that has occurred on the remaining 4,500 – 4,600 interceptions, the electronic record that is generated for each interception will need to be looked at. This will involve Customs staff viewing 4,500 – 4,600 individual reports. On this basis, Customs is considering refusing your request under section 18(f) of the OIA as the information requested cannot be made available without substantial collation and research.

Customs would like to invite you to refine the scope of your request to limit it to the scope to prosecution action that would be able to be supplied and without charge. Please respond with your refinement by 9am Monday 27 March 2017.

Kind regards,

Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing

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Good afternoon Mr Johnston,

 

Please find attached Customs response to your request dated 17 March 2017
for official information.

 

Kind regards,

 

Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing

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