
IR-01-25-565
28 January 2025
Nighthawk01
[FYI request #29679 email]
Kia ora Nighthawk01,
Request for information
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request of 4 January 2025, in which you
requested:
1. Please supply me any phone calls from ' Pike River control and Ben Rockhouse"
These can be supplied in any format.
2. Also please supply me SCADA data or " virtual machine data: in any format that is
preferable to NZ Police. As you have a electronic crime lab I am sure you are
capable of this.
3. Please also provide me the SCADA data from your work with Pike River Recovery
Agency and any emails related to electrical works within this scope.
If the data is subject to investigation or criminal proceeding, please provide data that
falls outside of this scope.
The information you seek is a fundamental part of the on-going criminal investigation into the
Pike River Mine explosion, therefore Police is withholding the information requested in full
pursuant to section 6(c) of the OIA, as the making available of the information would be likely to
prejudice the maintenance of the law, including the prevention, investigation and detection of
offences, and the right to a fair trial.
You have the right, under section 28(3) of the OIA, to make a complaint to an Ombudsman
about this extension. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Darryl Sweeney
Detective Superintendent.
Wellington & South Island. New
Zealand Police
Police National Headquarters
180 Molesworth Street. PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
Telephone: 04 474 9499. Fax: 04 498 7400. www.police.govt.nz