Hello Mr Collins

 

I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act request for
information on how many reported breaches of final protection orders per
year from 2000 to 2017, per gender.

How many of the reported breaches were persecuted, and how many were
dismissed due to insufficient evidence ?
How many of the total suspects were arrested straight away?

 

Your request is being actioned pursuant to the Official Information Act
1982.

 

Yours sincerely   

 

 

Holly Foxwell, 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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Dear Mr Collins

 

I refer to your Official Information Act request of 20 March 2018 for
information relating to the total number of protection order breaches.

 

The purpose of this email is to notify you that Police requires an
extension of time in which to respond to your request, pursuant to section
15A(1) of the Official Information Act 1982, because the request
necessitates a search through a large quantity of information and
consultations such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably
be made within the original time limit.

              

Police require until 4 May 2018 to provide a substantive response to your
request. 

 

 

Kind regards

 

Salote Talagi

Ministerial Services

 

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Dear Zane,

 

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

I refer to your Official Information Act (OIA) request dated 20 March 2018
in which you requested the following:

 

“Statistics of how many reported breaches of final protection orders per
year from 2000 to 2017, per gender. How many of the reported breached were
persecuted and how many were dismissed due to insufficient evidence? How
many of the total suspects were arrested straight away?”

 

The below tables show the number of proceedings against offenders for
Breach of Protection Order for the period from July 2009 to December 2017.
Table 1 is broken down by year and sex of the offender. Table 2 is broken
down by year and method of proceeding.

 

Proceedings against Offenders for Breach of Protection Order
by Sex
  Jul to Dec 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Male 2127 4025 4011 3731 3644 4166 4349 4511 4311
Female 67 173 156 146 137 172 196 179 165
Not Stated . . 1 . 3 . 1 1 3
Total 2194 4198 4168 3877 3784 4338 4546 4691 4479
by Method of Proceeding
  Jul to Dec 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Court Action 1682 3302 3233 3007 2985 3688 4001 4147 4043
Non-Court Action 372 663 670 740 734 625 510 517 436
Not Proceeded With 140 233 265 130 65 25 35 27 .
Total 2194 4198 4168 3877 3784 4338 4546 4691 4479

 

A proceeding counts each separate occasion when Police deals with an
alleged offender for one or more offences. Proceedings are usually
classified according to the most serious offence for which the offender is
dealt with on that occasion. This offence might not be a ‘Breach of
Protection Order’ offence. The above figures present counts of all
proceedings involving at least one ‘Breach of Protection Order’ offence
irrespective of whether that was the most serious offence in the
proceeding. Please note therefore that these figures may differ to figures
published elsewhere.

 

Please note, Police data does not distinguish instances where breaches of
protection orders are dismissed due to insufficient evidence. ‘Not
Proceeded With’ is used in instances where it is decided not proceed
against an offenders for reasons such as insufficient evidence, where the
statute of limitation applies, diplomatic immunity etc.

 

Breach of Protection Order apprehension data for the period from 1994 to
2014 is available at [1]http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Inde... .
Please note, these data are not comparable to the proceedings against
offender data.

 

Breach of Protection Order offences are as followed:

 

- Expand: ‘Offences against justice procedures, government security and
government operations’

- Expand:  ‘Breach of violence and non-violence restraining orders’

- Expand: ‘Breach of violence order’

·          Contravenes Protection Order (Firearm)

·          Contravenes Protection Order (No Firearm)

·          Fails to Comply With Conditions of Order (Firearm)

·          Fails to Comply With Conditions of Order (No Firearm)

·          Failed to Attend Program Sec.49A(1)

·          Other Breaches of Domestic Violence Act

 

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

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Dr Gavin Knight

Chief Data Scientist

National Performance and Insights Centre

New Zealand Police

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