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IPCA report on Policing of Public Protests

New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties made this Official Information request to Mark Mitchell

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From: New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

Dear Mark Mitchell,

On 18 February 2025, the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) published a report ‘The Policing of Public Protests in New Zealand’.

In paragraph 5 of the report the IPCA stated, “However, the need to undertake this review was discussed and agreed with Police from an early stage, and some components of the review have been conducted jointly with Police. We have also collaborated with the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Internal Affairs on the preparation of the main body of the report. We have also collaborated with the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Internal Affairs on the preparation of the main body of the report.”

The Council requests the following information under the Official Information Act:

1. All communications to and from the IPCA relating to this report, excluding anything relating to any specific complaint.

2. All analysis, assessment, consideration, formal and informal advice, recommendations, and responses developed by or communicated to you about the issues raised in the IPCA report and the recommendations made by IPCA.

3. All information recording your decisions on how to proceed regarding the recommendations made by the IPCA in its report.

4. All requests and communications by you to the Police to (a) work with the IPCA on the research and production of the IPCA report and (b) to do work on issues arising from the report.

5. All communications from you about the report, or how to proceed following the publication of the report, to (a) the Prime Minister, (b) the Minister of Justice, (c) the Minister of Internal Affairs, (d) the Associate Minister of Police, (e) either Associate Minister of Justice, (f) the Attorney General, (g) Crown Law and (h) the NZ Security Intelligence Service.

Under section 16(2) of the OIA our preferences are (a) to receive a copy of the whole document (b) that the information is disclosed in a text searchable format, either Word or PDF, and (c) that it is sent to the email address from which you received this request.

If you decide that there is 'good reason' under the OIA to withhold any of the information we are requesting, then under section 19(a)(ii) of the OIA, we further request that you provide us with the grounds in support of each instance of a withholding reason cited for refusal. Guidance for agencies on how to meet their section 19(a)(ii) obligations is available from the Ombudsman at this location: https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/reso...

If any part of our request is unclear, please don't hesitate to contact us. A response to this request is due as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case no later than 25 March 2025. If a large volume of information is in scope, then we are willing to discuss an extension, or to amend our request to a list of material.

Yours faithfully,

New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

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From: Mark Mitchell (MIN)
Mark Mitchell

 

Thank you for contacting the Hon Mark Mitchell, Minister for Police,
Corrections, Emergency Management and Recovery and MP for
Whangaparâoa.  The Minister considers all correspondence important and
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Thank you again for taking the time to write.
 
Kind regards,
Office of Hon Mark Mitchell

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