OIA requests received by police
Lance O'Riley made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Lance O'Riley
Dear New Zealand Police,
I reside in New Zealand and would like to request the following information.
Of all requests received under the official information act since 2010 please provide a breakdown of the following listed by calendar year.
[1] Total number of requests received requesting information.
[2] Total number of requests refused due to information not being held
[3] Total number of requests refused for any other reason
[4] Total numbers of requests withdrawn by the submitter
[5] Total number of requests partially answered
[6] Total number of requests answered within legislated time-frames
[7] Total number of requests answered outside of legislated time-frames
[8] 5 most common reasons for refusing a request
[9] Total number of times where a submitter has been asked to verify their identity for a request to be answered.
[10] Total number of times where a submitter has provided information to verify their identity to get a request answered
[11] Total number of times where a request has either been withdrawn or not followed up after being asked to verify their identity
[12] Criteria used by the New Zealand Police Service to determine if they will request information regarding a submitters identity.
Yours faithfully,
Lance O'Riley
New Zealand Police
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From: Lance O'Riley <[FYI request #9944 email]>
Date: 28/03/2019 10:55AM
Subject: Official Information request - OIA requests received by police
Dear New Zealand Police,
I reside in New Zealand and would like to request the following
information.
Of all requests received under the official information act since 2010
please provide a breakdown of the following listed by calendar year.
[1] Total number of requests received requesting information.
[2] Total number of requests refused due to information not being held
[3] Total number of requests refused for any other reason
[4] Total numbers of requests withdrawn by the submitter
[5] Total number of requests partially answered
[6] Total number of requests answered within legislated time-frames
[7] Total number of requests answered outside of legislated time-frames
[8] 5 most common reasons for refusing a request
[9] Total number of times where a submitter has been asked to verify their
identity for a request to be answered.
[10] Total number of times where a submitter has provided information to
verify their identity to get a request answered
[11] Total number of times where a request has either been withdrawn or
not followed up after being asked to verify their identity
[12] Criteria used by the New Zealand Police Service to determine if they
will request information regarding a submitters identity.
Yours faithfully,
Lance O'Riley
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From: Lance O'Riley
Dear New Zealand Police,
As a response has not yet been received, and this is the third one I have lodged recently which is now overdue.
Please keep in mind that under the Official Information Act 1982, s 12 you are required to accept a request in any form that it is submitted, as such any reasons given for delays are inadequate justifications at this stage. I have now forwarded this to the ombudsman for further investigation.
Yours faithfully,
Lance O'Riley
From: WRIGHT-MCCARTHY, Hannah
New Zealand Police
Dear Lance
I refer to your request of 28 March 2019 as below.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the Official Information Act 1982.
Ngā mihi
Hannah Wright-McCarthy
Ministerial Services Advisor
Police National Headquarters
E [email address]
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From: Lance O'Riley
Dear WRIGHT-MCCARTHY, Hannah,
What is the status of this request? a response is now well and truly overdue and cannot reasonably be explained by an administrative error at this point.
This is a serious failing of your obligations under the Official Information Act 1982, s15(1). Please provide an update as to when a response can be expected.
Yours sincerely,
Lance O'Riley
From: HODGSON, Lee
New Zealand Police
Dear Mr O’Riley – please find attached my response to your OIA request. My
sincere apologies for the delay in responding, we had some problems
receiving requests via FYI in March and your request was one of those
affected. The issue has since been rectified.
Kind regards
Ngâ mihi
L.
Lee Hodgson |National Manager |Ministerial Services |
Strategy & Partnerships |Police National Headquarters|DDI 04 4749427 |Extn
44027| [1][email address]
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Lance O'Riley left an annotation ()
Thanks Mark.
Truly disappointing that the police refused the majority of this request, especially given the time frames they took to answer the request in the first instance.
They have provided a contact number for them so I shall call them to try get this data even if it takes a significant time for it to be provided. Failing this I will contact the Ombudsman again to see if this can be pushed as arguably this could be of public interest to be provided.
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
It's disappointing that NZ Police have chosen not to respond to your request in an accessible format. Here is a clickable link to the page on the SSC website included in their image-based PDF response: http://www.ssc.govt.nz/official-informat...
Data for the number of OIA requests completed within (and not completed within) the legislated timeframe were not included in the latest set of data, for 1 July - 31 Dec 2018. This means NZ Police have not given any accurate grounds for refusing to release this information, because despite their assertion to the contrary it is *not* publicly available.
The spreadsheet published by the SSC clarifies that this failure by NZ Police to provide this data was caused by "A reporting design error... in NZ Police's new Information Request Tool".
Link to this