1 July 2020 
 
Ryan Potts 
 
REF: IR-01-20-12160 
Dear Ryan, 
I refer to your Official Information Act (OIA) request dated 5 May 2020 in which 
you requested the following:  
The number of suspected suicides and attempted suicides that Police 
attended during the Level 4 lockdown period. 
 
Police proactively release statistics to the public and this information is available on 
policedata.nz. The ‘COVID-19 Response’ report wil  be the most useful for your 
purposes. Please read the instructions on the summary page on how to use the 
report. For this particular instance, please do the following:  
•  Go to policedata.nz and double click on the ‘COVID-19 Response’ report 
•  From the ‘COVID-19 Response’ report, select the tab labelled ‘Calls for 
Service’  
•  To dril  into a geographic area, hover over the ‘District’ name in the ‘District 
Breakdown by Alert Level’ Table and click the "+" sign that appears. Then 
select the Area you are interested in 
•  Select the Alert Level period you require in the same Table 
•  To dril  into an Event Type, hover over the ‘Crime and Non-Crime Demand’ 
name in the ‘Breakdown by Type of Service Demand and Preventative 
Activities’ Table and click the "+" sign that appears. Under the ‘Event 
Category’ click again the "+" sign that appears. The Event Type you are 
interested in (‘Threatens/Attempts Suicide’) falls under the ‘Mental Health’ 
category.   
•  You can also download the data using the ‘Download’ icon at the bottom of 
the page and selecting ‘Data’. 
 
I trust this information is sufficient for your purposes. If you have any questions 
regarding the data or want assistance in extracting the information, please feel free to 
contact [email address]. You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my 
decision if you are not satisfied with Police’s response to your request. 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 

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Dr Sheree de Malmanche 
Chief Data Scientist 
Evidence Based Policing Centre  
New Zealand Police 
 
 
 
 
 

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