Sexual Abuse in Fire & Emergency

On Your Behalf made this Official Information request to Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Response to this request is long overdue. By law Fire and Emergency New Zealand should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.

From: On Your Behalf

Dear Fire and Emergency New Zealand,

I am writing in conjunction with a request made by "S Hill" in February 2022 as I seek further information.

I am writing under the Official Information Act to request the following:

1. Number of employees with Fire and Emergency New Zealand who have convictions under the Crimes Act with regards to 'Sex Offences'.
2. Number of past employees with Fire and Emergency New Zealand who have convictions under the Crimes Act with regards to 'Sex Offences' This includes people who committed the crime whilst under your employment and no longer work for Fire & Emergency New Zealand.
3. Number of volunteers with Fire and Emergency New Zealand who have convictions under the Crimes Act with regards to 'Sex Offenses'
4. Number of past volunteers with Fire and Emergency New Zealand who have convictions under the Crimes Act with regards to 'Sex Offences' This includes people who committed the crime whilst volunteering for Fire & Emergency and no longer volunteer for Fire & Emergency New Zealand.
5. A regional break down of the above, detailing employees & volunteers separately
6. The number of employee dismissals in the 2021 calendar year relating to 'Sex Offenses' under the Crimes Act
7. The number of volunteer dismissals in the 2021 calendar year relating to 'Sex Offenses' under the Crimes Act
8. The number of 'Sex Offenses' under the Crimes Act, both accused & committed by Fire and Emergency Staff or Volunteers in the 2021 calendar year.

Yours faithfully,

On Ur Behalf

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From: Official Information Requests
Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Dear On Ur Behalf  
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your information request, dated 25
August 2022.   

In accordance with section 15 of the Official Information Act 1982 we will
try to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we
are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an
extension of that timeframe.

In order to gather information relevant to your request, we may make
details of your request known to Fire and Emergency personnel who are
likely to be able to assist with the identification and collation of that
information.  This will not include your identity as the requestor, unless
it is reasonably necessary to share that in order to gather information
relevant to your request.  Please let us know immediately if you have any
concerns about the sharing of details of your request, including your
identity, within Fire and Emergency.  We will contact you to discuss your
concerns and how they will affect our approach to processing your request.

We will also contact you if:

·         we require further information to clarify, or to enable us to
process, your request;

·         we need to tell a third party who you are, in order to consult
on your request or information that relates to it.

Kind regards

Official Information Team

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From: Official Information Requests
Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Kia ora. Thank you for your request. Please can you provide your name so we can progress your request. You can find information about who can make a request for information on the Ombudsman's website here: https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/what...

We note that most of your request duplicates the request from S Hill. It appears the only requests that are different to those we have already responded to in the S Hill response are number 2 and number 4. As the response to S Hill is available on the FYI website, would you like to amend your request to be for only information that is not publicly available?

We look forward to hearing from you.

Information Requests Team

National Headquarters, Level 12, 80 The Terrace
PO Box 2133, Wellington 6140

[FENZ request email]
www.fireandemergency.nz

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Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Kia ora

We have not heard from you in relation to your email and our response. We are closing it in our system, but you are welcome to make a new request if you wish.

Nāku noa, nā

Information Requests Team

National Headquarters, Level 12, 80 The Terrace
PO Box 2133, Wellington 6140

[FENZ request email]
www.fireandemergency.nz

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