Request for copy of police email regarding "something needing to be done" about a website
Katherine Raue made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
The request was partially successful.
From: Katherine Raue
Dear New Zealand Police,
On 7.8.2010 at 7.47 an email was sent from Sgt Kevin Basher of Police to Sgt Murray Johnston. The email was cc'd to the Area Commander, John Johnston.
The subject of the email is " Fw: Formal Complaint, Information Request: Assault by police, refusal to take complaints or investigate them properly"
The contents of the email, which was also sent to me in part inadvertently, is as follows: "Kevin Basher---07/09/2010 07:47:45---Something needs to be looked at regarding RAUE using her 'Blog" to make statements regarding our sta"
I have REPEATEDLY requested a copy of the entire email, and any responses or associated emails (inter alia). Despite Police repeatedly stating that the information would be provided, it never has been.
I have obtained legal advice confirming that this request conforms with the Official Information Act as it is official information, not just private information about me.
There is strong public interest in this matter, accordingly I am now making the request through this website.
This request is urgent. The information is long overdue, please provide it without further delay.
Yours faithfully,
Katherine Raue
Transparency NZ
Katherine Raue left an annotation ()
David has identified a real problem with this valuable site. It's a worry that this site is quite often unavailable, and that the contact listed for the website, Caleb Tutty, and the email address for Caleb Tutty at the Herald, are also uncontactable at the details provided. Leaving control of this website to one journalist is not really satisfactory, and this needs to be addressed.
Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) left an annotation ()
Hi Katherine,
By "contact listed" I presume you are referring to the address attached to the domain name registration. I will have that address corrected. Caleb is only one of multiple volunteers who operate FYI.org.nz, whom you can reach using the address listed at the "Contact us" link at the bottom of every page.
Also, although Caleb previously worked for NZ Herald, the paper has no involvement in the day-to-day operation of the site or its policies. NZ Herald graciously host us on their compute infrastructure, eliminating our costs which might otherwise be significant. Administration and maintenance is done by volunteers unconnected with the Herald.
I am interested to know whether the email referred to in this request is referring to FYI.org.nz (which is not a "blog") or another site. Hopefully we will find out.
Regards,
Oliver
FYI.org.nz admin
From: MCMAHON, Teresa
New Zealand Police
Dear Ms Raue
Police acknowledges receipt of your information request below which is
being dealt with under the Official Information Act 1982.
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters / New Zealand Police / Nga Pirihimana O
Aotearoa
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To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police
<[2][New Zealand Police request email]>
From: Katherine Raue <[3][FOI #7071 email]>
Date: 30/12/2017 12:56AM
Subject: Official Information request - Request for copy of police email
regarding "something needing to be done" about a website
Dear New Zealand Police,
On 7.8.2010 at 7.47 an email was sent from Sgt Kevin Basher of Police to
Sgt Murray Johnston. The email was cc'd to the Area Commander, John
Johnston.
The subject of the email is " Fw: Formal Complaint, Information Request:
Assault by police, refusal to take complaints or investigate them
properly"
The contents of the email, which was also sent to me in part
inadvertently, is as follows: "Kevin Basher---07/09/2010
07:47:45---Something needs to be looked at regarding RAUE using her 'Blog"
to make statements regarding our sta"
I have REPEATEDLY requested a copy of the entire email, and any responses
or associated emails (inter alia). Despite Police repeatedly stating that
the information would be provided, it never has been.
I have obtained legal advice confirming that this request conforms with
the Official Information Act as it is official information, not just
private information about me.
There is strong public interest in this matter, accordingly I am now
making the request through this website.
This request is urgent. The information is long overdue, please provide
it without further delay.
Yours faithfully,
Katherine Raue
Transparency NZ
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From: CRAWLEY, Gordon
New Zealand Police
Dear Kate,
I refer to your e-mail dated 30 December 2017 in which you made the
following request:
“On 7.8.2010 at 7.47 an email was sent from Sgt Kevin Basher of Police to
Sgt Murray Johnston. The email was cc'd to the Area Commander, John
Johnston.
The subject of the email is " Fw: Formal Complaint, Information Request:
Assault by police, refusal to take complaints or investigate them
properly" The contents of the email, which was also sent to me in part
inadvertently, is as follows: "Kevin Basher---07/09/2010
07:47:45---Something needs to be looked at regarding RAUE using her 'Blog"
to make statements regarding our sta". I have REPEATEDLY requested a copy
of the entire email, and any responses or associated emails (inter alia).
Despite Police repeatedly stating that the information would be provided,
it never has been”.
The purpose of this e-mail is to notify you that Police require an
extension of time in which to respond to your request, pursuant to section
15A(1)(a) of the Official Information Act 1982 as the request necessitates
a search through a large quantity of information, and meeting the original
time limit would unreasonably interfere with the operations of the agency.
Police require until 10 March 2018 to provide a substantive response to
your request.
You have the right to complain to the Office of the Ombudsmen about this
extension.
Yours sincerely,
__________________________________________________________________
Senior Sergeant Gordon Crawley I Prevention Manager I Wairarapa Area
Masterton Police Station I 21 Church Street I P O Box 443 I Masteron 5810
I DX – PX10227
( +64 4 370-0307 I Ext: 47907 I È +64 21 190 3252 I
*[1][email address]
Wellington District – One District/One Team
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
You'd be justified in complaining to the Ombudsman regarding this response. It was due as soon as reasonably practicable, and certainly no later than the 13th of February.
It also seems ridiculous to me that NZ Police could require over 40 working days to locate and release the information you have requested, given the identifying details you've provided to them.
Katherine Raue left an annotation ()
Thanks Mark, you're correct. This response is an insult to justice, and a damning indictment on the governance structure of this country.
I have been requesting this information since 29 September 2010, and the refusal of Police to provide it, and the corrupt manner of the refusals to provide the information are evidence of a deeply dysfunctional organisation that has been deeply dysfunctional for many years, and getting worse, not better.
It is clear to any right thinking person that the refusal to provide this information is a deliberate attempt to pervert the course of justice.
I will not only be lodging a complaint with the Ombudsmen, but taking the infinitely more effective action of filing an application for an Order for Particular Discovery in the High Court.
How hard is it to search an email account?! It's a simply matter to type the keywords into the search box and bring up the emails, and it's absolutely vital that all information held by Police is fully backed up and archived, particularly electronic information! There is simply no excuse for this delay - the ongoing refusal to provide the information is indisputable, and seriously prejudicing my right to justice.
Compare this insulting response with the legislation regarding limitations on initiating legal action - justice delayed is justice denied!
From: Katherine Raue
Dear CRAWLEY, Gordon,
This information is now long overdue, please provide it without further delay.
Yours sincerely,
Katherine Raue
From: CRAWLEY, Gordon
New Zealand Police
I am away from the office from 23rd March until the 30th April 2018 .
Please contact the Area Commander Wairarapa Insp Scott Miller e-mail
[email address]
I will respond to emails and phone messages on my return.
From: MCKEE, Warwick
New Zealand Police
Hi Katherine,
I have the information you requested as per OIA request 16/9769/1.
Can you please forward an address that I can send this to please.
Thanks
Warwick
Warwick McKee
Detective Senior Sergeant |
O/C Wellington Area CIB |
Wellington Area CIB |
* Wellington CIB | Victoria Street | PO Box 693 | Wellington | New
Zealand
( 06 3700307 | Ext 47907 | š [1][email address] |
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From: Katherine Raue
Dear MCKEE, Warwick,
Thank you for your message. You already have the address, it is the same address at which we've been corresponding, it hasn't changed.
Yours sincerely,
Katherine Raue
From: MCKEE, Warwick
New Zealand Police
Hi Katherine,
Thanks for your E mail. I will scan the information and forward it to you shortly
Warwick
Warwick McKee
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O/C Wellington Area CIB |
Wellington Area CIB |
* Wellington CIB | Victoria Street | PO Box 693 | Wellington | New Zealand ( 06 3700307 | Ext 47907 | š [1][email address] |
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-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Raue [mailto:[FOI #7071 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2018 1:20 p.m.
To: MCKEE, Warwick <[email address]>
Subject: Re: OIA request
Dear MCKEE, Warwick,
Thank you for your message. You already have the address, it is the same address at which we've been corresponding, it hasn't changed.
Yours sincerely,
Katherine Raue
-----Original Message-----
Hi Katherine,
I have the information you requested as per OIA request 16/9769/1.
Can you please forward an address that I can send this to please.
Thanks
Warwick
Warwick McKee
Detective Senior Sergeant |
O/C Wellington Area CIB |
Wellington Area CIB |
* Wellington CIB | Victoria Street | PO Box 693 | Wellington | New Zealand ( 06 3700307 | Ext 47907 | š [1][email address] |
[2]Don’t let your valuables become burglar bait - pick them up and take them home - click here
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TAKE IT WITH YOU…
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From: MCKEE, Warwick
New Zealand Police
Hi Katherine,
Attached scan refers to your OIA [16/9769/1]
Thanks
Warwick McKee
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From: Katherine Raue
Dear MCKEE, Warwick,
I am shocked to read this - it is extremely incriminating of the police and contains a pack of lies - the implications of it are very serious and I look forward to watching Police try and justify their actions in even sending this to the legal section and seeking a prosecution on the basis of Dallinger's lies and the indisputable evidence of the conspiracy of police to pervert the course of justice!
I requested ALL the emails and communications - so I am requesting all information regarding any evidence whatsoever that I ever said - let alone actually published on any of my websites, which is clearly the implication being made here - anything whatsoever about disgraced ex constable Paul Dallinger's wife. What absolute lies! I am amazed that any woman would ever agree to marry such an odious creature and certainly have never said or even thought anything whatsoever about Dallinger's wife - I didn't even know he had a wife - I feel sorry for her!
The one email you've provided contains evidence that the matter was referred to the legal section - where is the rest of the information? Where is the information provided to the legal section - surely it wasn't sent to the legal section without any actual EVIDENCE of Dallinger's allegations, was it???
There is a lot more information regarding this matter and I request that Police locate it and provide it without further delay.
There is considerable evidence that ex constable Dallinger resigned shortly after corruptly laying false charges against me related to the allegation contained in this email - he charged me with breaching a protection order in a pathetic and unsuccessful attempt to shut down my website by claiming that I'd breached this bogus protection order by writing things about James Cowley on the internet that James Cowley didn't like - the charge was thrown out by Judge Wainwright along with a very large number of other corruptly laid charges, and the Judge ruled there was no basis for the protection order charge whatsoever, which is why Police tried very hard to avoid providing me with Criminal Disclosure and had to be order to do so by the Judge - Dallinger conspired with James Cowley to lay that charge and others.
Provide the emails between ex constable Paul Dallinger and James Cowley please Warwick McKee and hurry up about it - this request is long overdue and a complaint is before the Ombudsmen, but that does not excuse you from your legal obligations! No wonder Police have avoided providing this email - subsequent events prove that this email is part of an outrageous conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and silence and punish innocent victims of police corruption who dare to complain about it!
Dallinger is a liar! I warn you not to try and deny that the emails between Cowley and Dallinger exist, because I have indisputable evidence that they do thanks to the incompetence of the pair of them, provide them as requested without further delay please.
There were a number of emails sent between disgraced ex constable Paul Dallinger and James Cowley in which Cowley makes a number of false statements and tells a lot of lies as they plot and plan to charge me with breaching a bogus protection order for the purpose of having the website shut down because Cowley doesn't like me publishing evidence of his disgraceful actions on the internet - the Court upheld my right to do so as police well know! My daughter was abused in state care as a result of incompetent and corrupt police at the behest of her father, James Cowley - who kicked her out of home NINE DAYS after she was abused and molested for the second time since her unlawful removal, at the age of 15, by sleazy CYFS approved "caregivers" - and I'll write about it all I like, with the full knowledge of my daughter who is now an adult and who doesn't mind at all if I do! Police should be charging the persons who molested and abused my daughter instead of trying to shut down my website for complaining about it!
Did Police ever obtain any information, let alone actual evidence, of Dallinger's claims that I'd allegedly made comments about his wife, before these senior officers who should know better decided to send it to the legal section and set about trying to take my website down using the bogus protection order charge because they knew there was no evidence of me saying anything about Dallinger's wife?
Where is the advice of the legal section? What was that advice? Was that advice that in the absence of any evidence whatsoever to substantiate Dallinger's lies it might be better to try the fake protection order charge and go with James Cowley's lies instead because there was evidence I'd written about Cowley on my websites but not Dallinger's wife???
Dallinger resigned from the police shortly after his spectacularly unsuccessful attempts to convict me of a criminal offence, and fled to Australia to avoid prosecution! Another local cop named David Gallagher did the same over the bogus charges he filed - he works in the local New World supermarket now.
I look forward to receiving the rest of the information requested without delay.
Interested parties can find evidence of this conspiracy to pervert the course of justice at the following links and elsewhere on various websites - these sites will be updated in the near future as other information is compiled including communications between Paul Dallinger and James Cowley.
http://kate-raue.blogspot.com/2011/07/st...
http://kate-raue.blogspot.com/2011/08/re...
http://kate-raue.blogspot.com/2013/03/po...
Yours sincerely,
Katherine Raue
From: Katherine Raue
Dear MCKEE, Warwick,
This is unbelievable! "I suggest all the information regarding her blog or whatever it is she uses to spout off about all and sundry is sent to legal for a determination regarding defamation/libel."
Are Police aware that defamation and libel are CIVIL matters and not CRIMINAL and therefore NONE OF THE POLICE'S BUSINESS???
Police tried to charge me with Bill Sticking for allegedly advertising a public meeting to discuss the fraud involving Georgina Beyer and others at the Carterton Community Centre - instead of investigating the fraud they charged me with allegedly putting up a notice about it - then of course Police didn't turn up to Court BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT A WASTE OF TIME THAT WOULD BE HAVING RECEIVED LEGAL ADVICE WHICH I HAVE THAT IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME AND A CORRUPT PROSECUTION THAT WAS ALWAYS DOOMED TO FAIL LIKE ALL THE OTHER PROSECUTIONS AGAINST ME!
Send me "all the information regarding [my] blog or whatever it is" which was apparently sent to the legal department and all other information regarding this little Police operation to vilify an innocent victim of serious crime WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!
Yours sincerely,
Katherine Raue
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Dave Mclean left an annotation ()
Good morning ,
Blog sites such as this one FYI.org.nz ,are a fundamental right of a democratic society .These sites allow the general public to question authorities about anything that the person or community wishes to be informed about .
To try and close this and any other site that informs the people of possible wrong doing by authorities ,public or international persons , would be an infringement of our democratic rights that NewZealanders have fort and died for over the last century . .NewZealand is not run by a dictator or a communist government ,IT IS a democracy and our right to be informed or express our opinions is a corner stone of our society .
Thankyou fyi.org.nz for providing this to fellow NewZealanders ,well done .
David Mclean
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