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COA holders with gang affiliations and convictions for violent offending

Aaron Goodwin made this Official Information request to Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority

The request was partially successful.

From: Aaron Goodwin

Dear Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority,

Can you confirm the number of applicants who were successful in obtaining a COA over the past two years who had known/declared gang affiliations at the time their application was being processed, and could you also confirm the number of successful COA applicants with convictions related to violent offending at the time their application was processed during that same two year time period?

Yours faithfully,
Aaron Goodwin

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From: PSPLA
Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority

 

Thank you for your email.

Important Notice: From the 11th  May 2023, the Ministry will no longer use
or accept credit card payment forms. To pay for an application you can do
this by either completing our online application, file and pay or at your
nearest court.

 

Further information is provided on our website under, "Ways to pay the
fee"

 

[1]https://www.justice.govt.nz/tribunals/li...

 

Kind regards,

 

Private Security Personnel Licensing Team

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From: PSPLA
Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority

Kai ora Mr Goodwin,

Thank you for your email.

There have only been 2 applicants in the last two years who were successful in obtaining a COA who had known/declared gang affiliations at the time their application was being processed. For one of these the person had left the gang and no longer had any active gang affiliations.

We are unable to provide you with the number of people who have been granted COAs with convictions for violent offending. This is not the type of data we can obtain from searching our data base and not all convictions for offences of violence come up in applicants' criminal history checks. Therefore even if we were able to do a manual trawl through the 20,000 plus applications received over the last 2 years it would not produce an accurate number of COAS granted to people with convictions for offences of violence.

Ngā mihi

Danny Tuiloma
Service Manager
Tribunals Unit
DX Box SX11159 | Wellington
Ministry Of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
www.justice.govt.nz

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From: Aaron Goodwin

Dear PSPLA,

Thank you for your prompt response and your explanation as to why some of the information couldn't be obtained.

Yours sincerely,
Aaron Goodwin

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