Auror retail crime reporting system
Cody C made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
The request was partially successful.
From: Cody C
Dear New Zealand Police,
Please provide the following information, where reasonably available, under the Official Information Act:
1. What are Police using the Auror system for?
2. Approximately how much time is being spent using the system (hours or FTEs)?
3. Approximately how much money is being spent for access to the system?
4. SOPs or instruction manuals for the Auror system held by Police
5. Contract for engaging Auror
For the purposes of the Act, I am a New Zealand citizen and residing in New Zealand at the time of making this request. You generally have 20 working days to respond to this notice, as required by law. Your response will be published publicly on the fyi.org.nz website. I prefer an electronic response.
Yours faithfully,
Cody C
New Zealand Police
Good afternoon
Thank you for your request below.
Your request will be actioned and responded to pursuant to the Official
Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters
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From: Cody C <[FOI #9337 email]>
Date: 05/01/2019 08:58AM
Subject: Official Information request - Auror retail crime reporting
system
Dear New Zealand Police,
Please provide the following information, where reasonably available,
under the Official Information Act:
1. What are Police using the Auror system for?
2. Approximately how much time is being spent using the system (hours or
FTEs)?
3. Approximately how much money is being spent for access to the system?
4. SOPs or instruction manuals for the Auror system held by Police
5. Contract for engaging Auror
For the purposes of the Act, I am a New Zealand citizen and residing in
New Zealand at the time of making this request. You generally have 20
working days to respond to this notice, as required by law. Your response
will be published publicly on the fyi.org.nz website. I prefer an
electronic response.
Yours faithfully,
Cody C
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D ear Cody C
Further to your request below, we have been asked to seek confirmation of
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Despite your having receivedan acknowledgement to your request indicating
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While we have no difficultyaccepting the use of pseudonyms in email
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From: Cody C <[FOI #9337 email]>
Date: 05/01/2019 08:58AM
Subject: Official Information request - Auror retail crime reporting
system
Dear New Zealand Police,
Please provide the following information, where reasonably available,
under the Official Information Act:
1. What are Police using the Auror system for?
2. Approximately how much time is being spent using the system (hours or
FTEs)?
3. Approximately how much money is being spent for access to the system?
4. SOPs or instruction manuals for the Auror system held by Police
5. Contract for engaging Auror
For the purposes of the Act, I am a New Zealand citizen and residing in
New Zealand at the time of making this request. You generally have 20
working days to respond to this notice, as required by law. Your response
will be published publicly on the fyi.org.nz website. I prefer an
electronic response.
Yours faithfully,
Cody C
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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.
Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #9337 email]
Is [New Zealand Police request email] the wrong address for Official Information
requests to New Zealand Police? If so, please contact us using this form:
[1] https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...
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From: Cody C
Dear New Zealand Police,
Thank you for your templated email response.
As specified in my original request "I am a New Zealand citizen and residing in New Zealand at the time of making this request". This information should satisfy the requirements of the Act.
Yours faithfully,
Cody C
From: MCMAHON, Teresa
New Zealand Police
Dear Cody C
I have been asked to advise you that Police is preparing a response to
your request regarding Auror.
Yours sincerely
Ministerial Services, Police National Headquarters
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From: FOXWELL, Holly
New Zealand Police
Dear Cody
I have been asked to let you know that Police requires an extension of
time in which to respond to your request for the below information. This
extension is pursuant to section 15A(1) of the Official Information Act
1982, because the request necessitates consultations such that a proper
response to the request cannot reasonably be made within the original time
limit.
Police require until 8/03/2019 to provide a substantive response to your
request.
You have the right to ask the Office of the Ombudsman to review this
extension.
Ngā mihi
Holly Foxwell
Ministerial Services Advisor
Police National Headquarters
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Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2019 1:31 p.m.
To: [FOI #9337 email]
Subject: Official Information Request
Good afternoon
Thank you for your request below.
Your request will be actioned and responded to pursuant to the Official
Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters
To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police
From: Cody C
Date: 05/01/2019 08:58AM
Subject: Official Information request - Auror retail crime reporting
system
Dear New Zealand Police,
Please provide the following information, where reasonably available,
under the Official Information Act:
1. What are Police using the Auror system for?
2. Approximately how much time is being spent using the system (hours or
FTEs)?
3. Approximately how much money is being spent for access to the system?
4. SOPs or instruction manuals for the Auror system held by Police
5. Contract for engaging Auror
For the purposes of the Act, I am a New Zealand citizen and residing in
New Zealand at the time of making this request. You generally have 20
working days to respond to this notice, as required by law. Your response
will be published publicly on the fyi.org.nz website. I prefer an
electronic response.
Yours faithfully,
Cody C
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C Cody AUROR IR 01 19 441 signed.pdf
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Dear Cody
Please find the attached response to your below request.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters
To: [FOI #9337 email]
From: [email address]
Date: 08/01/2019 01:31PM
Subject: Official Information Request
Good afternoon
Thank you for your request below.
Your request will be actioned and responded to pursuant to the Official
Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters
To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police <[New Zealand Police request email]>
From: Cody C <[FOI #9337 email]>
Date: 05/01/2019 08:58AM
Subject: Official Information request - Auror retail crime reporting
system
Dear New Zealand Police,
Please provide the following information, where reasonably available,
under the Official Information Act:
1. What are Police using the Auror system for?
2. Approximately how much time is being spent using the system (hours or
FTEs)?
3. Approximately how much money is being spent for access to the system?
4. SOPs or instruction manuals for the Auror system held by Police
5. Contract for engaging Auror
For the purposes of the Act, I am a New Zealand citizen and residing in
New Zealand at the time of making this request. You generally have 20
working days to respond to this notice, as required by law. Your response
will be published publicly on the fyi.org.nz website. I prefer an
electronic response.
Yours faithfully,
Cody C
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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.
Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #9337 email]
Is [New Zealand Police request email] the wrong address for Official Information
requests to New Zealand Police? If so, please contact us using this form:
[1] https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...
Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[2]https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers
If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please
ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.
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M B left an annotation ()
I note that the Auror contract provided here and in response to several other FYI requests is dated 13 August 2018,
However, in a recent response it was acknowledged that the first live ANPR alerts (tracking) on Auror were set up as early as 4 April 2018 with surveillance device warrants (https://fyi.org.nz/request/21129/respons...)
Presumably retrospective searches would have been completed prior to this date also.
I question whether there is further withheld documentation and contracts that allowed Auror a greater degree of commercial certainty to develop the police’s ANPR surveillance suite.
Or did the Police somehow feed funding into Auror to develop the surveillance tool privately? just like the proposed purchase documents of safercities’ vGRID (VIBE) suggested they did for that platform when it was first developed.
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
It's a bit late now, and this seems to have been resolved, but it is still worth noting that this is absolutely untrue:
"it is necessary to establish your eligibility to request the information you have sought under the OIA"
There is no necessity for any agency to ever establish a requester's eligibility to request information under the OIA before responding to a request. If they choose to do this, that's exactly what it is: the agency choosing to put a barrier in the requester's way.
I have had advice from NZ Police's Senior Advisor Renee Maunder on Facebook regarding Police requiring requesters to give identifying information to satisfy requests for proof of eligibility:
"Mark Hanna I am now the Senior Advisor at Police, and that would be very much against our policy (and the spirit, if not the letter, of the law) and our capacity. Police does the vast majority of requests and we have a small team in a devolved model, and we don't have the time to check. If you know if it happening - direct people straight to the Ombudsman."
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