Dear C Lawrence

Your request of 25 November 2017 for the following information has been
received by Police and is being dealt with under the Official Information
Act 1982:

 

1) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016
2) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
victim was female
3) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
victim was male
4) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
offender was female
5) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
offender was male

Teresa McMahon, Ministerial Services

Police National Headquarters / New Zealand Police / Nga Pirihimana O
Aotearoa

180 Molesworth Street, PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140  [1]www.police.govt.nz

 

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DearC. Lawrence,

 

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

Irefer to your Official Information Act (OIA) request dated 25 November
2017 in which you requested the following:

 

1) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016

2) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
victim was female

3) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
victim was male

4) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
offender was female

5) Number of domestic violence incidents from 2010 to 2016 where the
offender was male

 

Police proactively release statistics to the public, which are updated
monthly. This information you requested is available online at
[1]policedata.nz . The‘Victimisations (demographics)’, ‘Proceedings
(demographics)’, and ‘Demand and Activity’ reports will be the most useful
for your purposes. Please read the instructions on the summary page on how
to use these reports. [Please refer to section 18(d) of the OIA].

 

Using Victimisations and Proceedings statistics, Police define family
violence as ‘Crimes Against the Person’ where the relationship of offender
to victim is family member or ex-boyfriend/girlfriend. ‘Crimes Against the
Person’ includes the following offence divisions: Acts Intended to Cause
Injury, Sexual Assault and Related Offences, Abduction and Kidnapping, and
Robbery, Extortion and Related Offences.

 

For demandand activity statistics related to family violence incidents you
can use the ‘Demand and Activity’ report to show the number of occurrences
for family violence related incidents reported to and recorded by Police.
Please note, demand and activity statistics do not include demographic
information such as gender.

 

Unfortunatelywe are unable to provide statistics prior to July 2014 due to
changes in Police’s statistical series in July 2014.

 

If any of this is unclear, please contact my team on 04 460 2999 or at
[2][email address] .

 

If you are not satisfied with my response to your request you have the
right to complain to the Office of the Ombudsmen and seek an investigation
and review of my decision.

 

Yourssincerely,

 

DrGavin Knight

ChiefData Scientist

NationalPerformance and Insights Centre

NewZealand Police

 

 

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Dear C Lawrence

 

Your comments below have been referred to our statistics team for
consideration and response to you.

 

Ministerial Services

Police National Headquarters / New Zealand Police / Nga Pirihimana O
Aotearoa

180 Molesworth Street, PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140  [1]www.police.govt.nz

 

 

 

To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at New Zealand Police
<[2][New Zealand Police request email]>
From: C Lawrence <[3][FOI #6874 email]>
Date: 23/12/2017 03:17AM
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Domestic violence statistics

Hello,

Thank you for your response.

The "Detail" tab of the "Victimisations (demographics)" statistics doesn't
show the sex of the victim for specific crimes as the graph showing the
sex doesn't update when selecting categories.
  See this image for example: [4]https://i.imgur.com/DB920vw.png  
With the options selected there should be a total of 74,040 but the number
of female victims alone is 214,454, which is the same as it is when no
categories are selected.

The "Detail" tab of the "Proceedings (offender demographics)" statistics
has a similar problem.
  See this image: [5]https://i.imgur.com/qxPc5yB.png  
From the options selected there should be a total of 14,418 but the number
of males is 16,078, which is the same as it is when Parter is selected in
the ROV group and the ANZOC division is set to "(all)".

Regards,
C Lawrence

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Dear C Lawrence
I apologise for the delay. We have asked that a response to your queries is sent to you as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Teresa McMahon, Ministerial Services
Police National Headquarters / New Zealand Police / Nga Pirihimana O Aotearoa
180 Molesworth Street, PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140 www.police.govt.nz

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Dear C Lawrence
Our Data team would be happy to call you and talk through your questions with you if that is acceptable to you and if you would like to provide me with a telephone number through calling or emailing me at the contact number below or to my email address.

I understand that this would be the best way to resolve the issues you have raised.

Regards

Teresa McMahon
Ministerial Services | New Zealand Police
P +64 4 474 9469 Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth St, Thorndon, PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140

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I will be away for much of the time through to COB on Monday 7 May and
possibly longer.  Please email [email address] if the
matter is urgent. Thank you.

Dear C Lawrence
This set of instructions has been provided by our Data team. You might also like to refer back to the original reply which contained instructions.

They remain happy to talk you through this if you would like to provide a phone number to me, using a private email address to ensure your privacy.

1. In the Victimisations (Demographics) report go to the tab labelled 'Detail'
2. Select your time period of interest in the calendar that opens when you click on the year months text 'mmmyyyy'.
3. In the Crime Type Bar Chart click in the white space and drag so that you highlight the following ANZSOC divisions (the bars will then have a black outline): Acts Intended to Cause Injury, Sexual Assault and Related Offences, Abduction and Kidnapping, and Robbery, Extortion and Related Offences.
4. In the relationship of Offender to Victim table hover over the heading 'ROV Division' a plus sign will appear - click it - click it again for 'ROV Subdivision' - highlight all 'Family Members' press 'Cntrl' on keyboard and under 'Non Family Member' highlight 'Ex-Boy/Girlfriend' and 'Ex-Partner'.
5. The pie chart labelled 'Sex' has now updated with the sex of the victim for the specified victimisations in the specified time period. Hover over the pie slices to get the number of victimisations by sex.

6. In the Proceedings (Offender Demographics) report go to the tab labelled 'Detail'
7. Select your time period of interest in the calendar that opens when you click on the year months text 'mmmyyyy'.
8. In the ANZSOC Subdivision drop-down select these values: Abduction and Kidnapping, Assault, Attempted Murder, Blackmail and Extortion, Murder, Non-Assaultive Sexual Offences, Robbery and Sexual Assault.
9. In the relationship of Offender to Victim table highlight all 'Family Members', press 'Cntrl' on keyboard and under 'Non Family Member' highlight 'Ex-Boy/Girlfriend' and 'Ex-Partner'.
10. The pie chart labelled 'Sex' will now update with the sex of the offender for the specified proceedings against offenders in the specified time period. Hover over the pie slices to get the number of proceedings against offenders by sex.

Teresa McMahon
Ministerial Services | New Zealand Police
Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth St, Thorndon, PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140

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Dear C Lawrence

I write on behalf of my colleague Teresa who is currently out of office.

The Proceedings (offender demographics) report has been updated so that the Crime Type drop-downs now filter the Sex and Ethnicity pie charts. If you then follow the instructions provided it will work as intended.

Regards
 
Salote Talagi
Ministerial Services
 
E  [email address]
 

 

 

 
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