Kia ora Marcus
I refer to your request of 20 August 2019 as below.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the Official Information Act
1982. 
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
PNHQ

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Dear Marcus,

 

We acknowledge receipt of your request for official information regarding
towing data.

 

We are processing your request according to the provisions of the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987. You will receive a
decision within 20 working days after the receipt of your request by
Auckland Transport, as required by the Act. We received your request from
the NZ Police ministerial services on 26 August 2019. The expected due
date for a decision is 23 September 2019.  Please note this is the maximum
response time and we will endeavour to respond to you sooner.

 

If you have any further queries, please contact us on (09) 355 3553 during
business hours, quoting Local Government Official Information request number
CAS-1139991-C8H6V8.

 

Kind regards,

 

Nicole | Customer Liaison Specialist
Auckland Transport

Private Bag 92250, Auckland 1142

P 09 355 3553 | E [1][email address] or
[2][email address]

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Kia ora Marcus

 

I refer to your request of 20 August2019 as below.

 " It is my understanding that both the Auckland Transportauthority and
any private towing contractors must notify the police when they have towed
a vehicle. Provided that's correct, I'd like to request some historical
towing data for use.

At minimum, Auckland Transport indicates that you'll havethe license plate
number and the location that the car was moved to.

I'd like to request towing data for the three Tamaki Makaurau police
districts i.e. Waitemata, Auckland City and Counties-Manukau, ranging back
for the last 5 years.

Specifically, the following bits of data if they exist:

- License plate numbers (optional if it's considered disclosable for
privacy reasons)

- Location the vehicle was towed to

- Location the vehicle was towed from (ideally a specificaddress but just
a general street is fine)

- Towing operator/entity

- Date and time of the towing event (ideally the time towed and time of
arrival at destination but I understand that level of granularity may not
be captured)

- Type of vehicle (if captured)

I'm not sure what level of detail is reported to police (aside from
license plates and location towed to) so I would expect to not receive any
of the above elements if they don't exist.

For the data format, I'd prefer to receive the data in amachine readable
format (CSV ideally or XLSX)"

The information you haverequested is not held by Police.

 

Police believes that thisinformation is more likely to be held by Auckland
Transport.

 

I am therefore transferringthis part of the request to Auckland Transport
pursuant to section 14 of the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Auckland Transport will be intouch regarding this in due course.

Yours sincerely

Ministerial Services

PNHQ

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Kia Ora Marcus

 

Thank you for your request for information which we received from NZ
Police on 26 August.

 

We have decided to grant your request in part. However, we may have to
charge for some of the information. We provide the first five hours of
work for free. What we can provide within this time is information for the
past three years – August 2016 to August 2019. Please let me know if you
are happy to reduce your request to three years?

 

If you are not happy with this the charge is $47.50 per half hour. We will
provide you with an estimate and ask you to pay before we start the work.

 

You are able to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this
decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

 

If you want to discuss this decision please contact me on this email
address and I will assist you.

 

The only part of your request that we are unable to provide to you is the
license plate numbers and this is for privacy reasons and we will fully
explain this in our full response.

 

Kind regards

 

Alison Hosey | LGOIMA Business Partner

Customer Liaison Team | Customer Experience
20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland 1010

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From: [FOI #11018 email]
[mailto:[FOI #11018 email]]

Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:21 PM

To: Ministerial Services <[email address]>

Subject: Official Information request - Request of towing data for three
Tamaki Makaurau police districts

 

Dear New Zealand Police,

 

It is my understanding that both the Auckland Transport authority and any
private towing contractors must notify the police when they have towed a
vehicle. Provided that's correct, I'd like to request some historical
towing data for use.

 

At minimum, Auckland Transport indicates that you'll have the license
plate number and the location that the car was moved to.

 

I'd like to request towing data for the three Tamaki Makaurau police
districts i.e. Waitemata, Auckland City and Counties-Manukau, ranging back
for the last 5 years.

 

Specifically, the following bits of data if they exist:

 

- License plate numbers (optional if it's considered disclosable for
privacy reasons)

- Location the vehicle was towed to

- Location the vehicle was towed from (ideally a specific address but just
a general street is fine)

- Towing operator/entity

- Date and time of the towing event (ideally the time towed and time of
arrival at destination but I understand that level of granularity may not
be captured)

- Type of vehicle (if captured)

 

I'm not sure what level of detail is reported to police (aside from
license plates and location towed to) so I would expect to not receive any
of the above elements if they don't exist.

 

For the data format, I'd prefer to receive the data in a machine readable
format (CSV ideally or XLSX)

 

Much appreciated,

 

Marcus

 

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Kia Ora Marcus

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 20 August 2019. Please
see attached response.

 

If you have any further queries, simply reply to this email leaving the
subject line as it is. We’ll make sure this information is added to your
case.

 

Kind regards

 

Alison Hosey | LGOIMA Business Partner

Customer Liaison Team | Customer Experience
20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland 1010

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