28 July 2021
Our Reference: IR-01-21-21194
Scott
[FYI request #15626 email]
Dear Scott,
I am writing in response to the email you submitted on 1 June 2021. Your request has
been considered pursuant to the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).
You had clarified question one (1) of your original request on 1 June, that had not been
addressed in the response sent to you on 7 July 2021. Specifically, you had requested:
“Any documents produced solely by Police relating to the October 2018 counter-terrorism
Response exercise, that can be described as formal debriefings, after-action reports
and/or evaluations of this exercise. If a set of recommendations resulted from this
exercise, I would like a copy of all recommendations that would have been the
responsibility of Police to implement and any action plans for implementing these
recommendations.”
There are no documents or information in existence that match the requested criteria. I
have canvassed the Police participants who have no recall of making such records, and
would not expect to have done so given Police was not hosting this exercise, and I have
had our systems searched for any such records, and there are none, therefore, this part
of your request is refused pursuant to section 18 (e) of the Act, as the information
requested does not exist.
I trust that you are satisfied with my response to your request. If not, you have the right
under section 28(3) of the Act to ask the Ombudsman to seek an investigation and review
of my decision.
Yours sincerely,
Inspector Jason Ross
Acting Director: Capability
Frontline Capability
Police National Headquarters 180 Molesworth Street. PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
Telephone: 04 474 9499. Fax: 04 498 7400. www.police.govt.nz