People locked in court cells
Ophelia made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Ophelia
Dear New Zealand Police,
Can you please provide the number of people left locked in court cells for a lengthy period of time, after being bailed?
By this I mean the number of people who were granted bail but not released promptly from court cells i.e stayed for a number of hours or even days in the court cells beyond the maximum period they should expect to be there after being bailed.
What is the reasonable maximum period one should expect to remain in court cells for, after being granted bail?
Can you please break the number of people down by the year the incident happened and location where they were held?
How long were each of those people locked in court cells after being granted bail?
What charges were each of those people awaiting sentencing on?
What was the age and gender of each of these people?
What was the cause of each of these incidents? (why were they in court cells for so long after being bailed?)
What was the outcome of the incident? i.e what did police do to make up for the period each person spent in court cells beyond what should be expected.
Yours faithfully,
OB
From: MCMAHON, Teresa
New Zealand Police
Dear Ophelia
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From: SEDGWICK, Alexandria
New Zealand Police
Dear Ophelia
I have been asked to send you the attached response to your request of 18
January 2017.
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