Number of shootings
Jack Hulls made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Jack Hulls
Dear New Zealand Police,
There is public debate around the need to arm police, to support this debate I would like facts and numbers of police involved shootings.
Can you please give number of public shot by police in last 10 years, the number of police shot by public in last 10 years.
Also can you provide number of times a taser has been used in an unapproved way. I.E any situation in which an investigation found police should not have used taser.
Last of all, can you provide the total number of firearms the police have.
Yours faithfully,
Jack Hulls
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe Jack
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Kind regards, Michelle
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe Jack
I refer to your request of 1 August 2021 for the following information:
Can you please give number of public shot by police in last 10 years, the
number of police shot by public in last 10 years.
Also can you provide number of times a taser has been used in an
unapproved way. I.E any situation in which an investigation found police
should not have used taser.
Last of all, can you provide the total number of firearms the police have.
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Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
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Kind regards, Brittany
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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malcolm daniel left an annotation ()
Not official police but this may help,
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2017/11...
Mark also had a OIA on fatal shootings
https://fyi.org.nz/request/12995-fatal-s...
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
Following one of my requests for similar information, when NZ Police published their "Tactical Options Research" summary report covering 2019 a year ago they included a table at the end of all shootings by NZ Police from 1916-2020.
You can find this report here: https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publ...
Direct PDF link: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default...
You may also be interested to read NZ Police's Taser policy. I don't know if it's been updated at all since this version, but the latest version I'm aware of to have been publicly released is this version, released to me on September 28 2018: https://fyi.org.nz/request/8308/response...
This, and previous versions of the Taser Manual, have stressed the importance that police officers must:
"Always use a TASER in a manner consistent with the 'Tactical Options Framework' and never 'use' in situations below the assaultive range, e.g. active or passive resistant."
However, Tactical Options Reporting data they have released under the OIA for recent years have detailed many instances in which tasers were "used" on people below the assaultive range. The way your request is currently worded, I don't believe it will cover this variety of misuse of a taser as I don't believe NZ Police always identifies and investigates each instance in which a taser was used contrary to policy in this way.
Link to this