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-----Original Message-----

From: Sue Boyde <[7][email address]>

Sent: Friday, June 2, 2023 3:46 PM

To: Ministerial Services <[8][email address]>

Subject: [EXTERNAL] Official Information request - Nature of police
involvement with Julian Batchelor event at Lindale Village 29/05/23

 

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Dear New Zealand Police,

 

I attended Julian Batchelor's Anti-co-governance talk of 29 May 2023. When
I arrived at 6:45 for 7 pm start, I saw 4+ police cars parked at the
bottom gate, and police keeping people from going up (mainly Maori
people).

 

At the door of the hall I saw police acting as security. In the course of
the talk, whenever a member of the audience displeased Julian Batchelor in
any way, he called on police to eject the person under threat of arrest.

 

Police told Stuff "Officers were called when event organisers asked a
small group of protesters who made it inside the meeting & voiced their
disapproval of the event to leave." However this is not true, officers
were on site and enforcing Julian Batchelor's wishes for at least 30
minutes before the event started.

 

All told I counted 16 police cars present.

 

Under OIA, could you please tell me

1) Given that police were present at the event from the start, was police
presence pre-arranged by Greg Rudings?

2) What level of seniority was the police person who arranged for police
cover at this event, and what police district did they belong to?

3) How many cars and police in total were assigned, and what districts did
they come from?

4) How many police remained in those districts for ordinary policing
duties on the evening of 29 May 2023?

 

Yours faithfully,

Sue Boyde

 

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