5 June 2024
Alan Thompson
[FYI request #26773 email]
Reference: OIA-2023/24-0862
Dear Mr Thompson
Official Information Act request relating to New Zealand Coordinated Incident
Management System
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request received on 14 May 2024.
You requested:
“I am following the development and implementation of the NZ Coordinated Incident
Management System (CIMS) with considerable concern as to its direction. Under the
provisions of the Official Information Act request copies of the minutes of the CIMS
Steering Committee meeting held in the period 1 July 2022 to 1 July 2024.”
I am unable to provide any meeting minutes for the Coordinated Incident Management System
Steering Committee as the Steering Committee went into abeyance in 2019. Therefore, your
request is refused under section 18(e) of the Act, as the documents requested do not exist.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under section
28(3) of the Act.
We do not intend to publish this response on the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet’s website.
Yours sincerely
Anthony Richards
Chief Advisor to the Deputy Chief Executive, Emergency Management
Level 7, TSB Building, 147 Lambton Quay | PO Box 5010 | Wellington 6140 | New Zealand
Tel: +64 4 830 5100 | [email address] | www.civildefence.govt.nz