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Police use of Cellebrite to search locked Cell Phones - Policies, Audits, & Stats.

M B made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police

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From: M B

Dear New Zealand Police,

Please provide
- Police manual chapters and policies for the use of Cellebrite in the extraction and analysis of cell phones. I understand this includes Cellebrite Universal Forensic Extraction Devices (UFED), Cellebrite Physical Analyser, and Cellebrite Pathfinder, which includes automatic classification functions (https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default... at 14).

- Are these three separate tools/systems, or are they commonly used as one suite? i.e., a device being subject to both Cellebrite Pathfinder (manual) and Cellebrite Physical Analyser (automatic) as standard practice.

- Any material on the procedures, features, or protocols that are in place to audit Cellebrite use. For instance, are a searching officer's viewed file paths stored and compared with the scope of authority under a search warrant? How often? What logs are recorded? Is that data then held centrally?

- The number of devices searched using Cellebrite. Please also indicate how this data is categorised so I can file a follow-up request for a specific category.

Yours faithfully,
Mason.

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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police

Tēnā koe

I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request below.

Your reference number is IR-01-23-32205.

You can expect a response to your request on or before 7 November 2023 unless an extension is needed.

Ngā mihi, Michelle
Ministerial Services - Police National Headquarters

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New Zealand Police

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Tēnā koe Mason

 

Please find attached the response relating to your Official Information
Act request, received by Police on 9 October 2023.

 

Ngā mihi

Lisa

Ministerial Services

Police National Headquarters

 

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