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The number of custom applications to be migrated and costs to NZ Police from their use of and upgrade from Windows XP

Brent Wood made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police

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From: Brent Wood

Dear New Zealand Police,

I am a New Zealand citizen, resident in New Zealand, seeking information under the Official Information Act on the difficulties and costs imposed on organisations by the expiry of standard Microsoft Windows XP support, including the migration of custom software to make such business specific software compatible with the later versions of the operating system.

Can you please provide answers to the following questions, and where you are unable to provide the requested information, please indicate why?

Please provide approximate values or estimates if accurate numbers are not available, and include the information that such values are only indicative.

1. Is NZ Police paying for support for any ongoing use of Windows XP within the organisation?
2. How many installations of Windows XP are involved?
3. How long is such support required for (an estimate or state that this has no known end date is OK)?
4. How much is this costing NZ Police?
5. Do any of the software applications used by NZ Police under Windows XP need any software development to run as required by NZ Police on a new operating system? (ie: they will not run as required without some modification).
6. If the answer to (5) is yes, how many such software applications are there?
7. If the answer to (5) is yes, what is the total cost of migrating such applications?
8. What is the overall cost of new operating system licences to replace Windows XP in the NZ Police?

Yours faithfully,

Brent Wood

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From: Brent Wood

Dear New Zealand Police,

By law you were required to reply promptly to my OIA request- no later than May 29 2015.

You have failed to do so. Can you please let me know why you have failed to comply with your obligations under law?

Yours faithfully,

Brent Wood

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From: MCMAHON, Teresa
New Zealand Police

Dear Mr Wood

 

You have sought an explanation as to why your request of 2 May 2015 to
Police has not been responded to.

 

I regret to advise that your original request was not processed. This was
an administrative error for which I sincerely apologise.  Your request has
now been submitted for processing and response.

 

As you will know, you have the right to complain to the Ombudsman about
this failure to meet the requirements of the Official Information Act
1982.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Teresa McMahon

Police National Headquarters

PO Box 3017

Wellington

 

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