New Zealand Police Manual of Best Practice
Joshua Grainger made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Joshua Grainger
Dear New Zealand Police,
There are numerous mentions in various resources to a document known as the 'Police Manual' or the 'New Zealand Police Manual of Best Practice'. I presume these are the same things. I would like to request under the Official Information Act:
* a copy of the Police Manual ( or the 'Manual of Best Practice'). According to the information available online there appears to be some ambiguity as to whether there is one Police Manual, or multiple Police Manuals, divided up by subject matter. If it is the latter, consider this a request for each Police Manual.
I would prefer that if any withholding provisions applied that partial deletions took place instead of the whole document being withheld. I note that some chapters of the manual appear to already be available online, (http://www.ppdvp.org.nz/wp-content/media...) so I presume that the whole document will not be withheld.
In the event that my request is large enough to trigger a s18(f) decline, I would like to request the names of the chapters within the Police Manual so that I can identify which chapters I wish to focus my request on. I would also be happy to do this if the manual is extraordinarily big and would take up a whole lot of processing time.
Feel free to contact me if you wish me to clarify my request.
Yours faithfully,
Joshua Grainger
From: RODGERS, Wayne
New Zealand Police
Dear Mr Joshua Grainger
I refer to your e-mailed Official information Act request of 5 October
2012.
The manual you request is called the “Police manual”. The manual is not a
hard copy publication instead it is an electronic database containing
numerous individual chapters of police policy. As per the options for
release detailed in your e-mail I have attached a list of all of the
chapters in the manual and two other types of policy, General
instructions, and Commissioners circulars.
Once you have identified what chapters you would like a copy of, please
advise me directly and I will identify what can be released to you.
I need to advise you at this stage that if the request is large, a fee may
be imposed as a person will need to taken from other duties to down load
onto a disk each policy as release will be by way of cd disk and
additionally, each policy you request will require review (reading
content) to identify what can and cannot be released. Dependant on the
size of your request this could be very time consuming. If there is to be
a fee I will advise you of the estimated cost and payment may be requested
before the work commences. If the request is reasonable there is likely to
be no fee. Please note that while we have released to you a list of all
the policy topic names, the content of some will not be released and some
would be released with deletions.
As the information will be released via a password accessed disk, I will
need an address for that to be sent to you.
I look forward to a response from you.
Yours faithfully
Wayne Rodgers
Inspector
Manager: Corporate Instrument Team
PNHQ level 13
Ext 44137
DD 04 474 9537
M 0274 578 443
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From: Joshua Grainger
Dear RODGERS, Wayne,
Thank you very much for your very informative reply - I'm rather surprised by the volume and depth of the different manuals available. I'm particularly grateful that you've included a list of general instructions and Commissioner circulars too, as my original request could be interpretted strictly as to not include these documents, but they're definitely included in what I'm looking for.
I'm not trying to be difficult, but I was wondering however why the chapters would have to be delivered via password protected disk. Is the concern around confidentiality, or just around the size of the relevant data? If the documents are to be password protected, will the password to access the documents be supplied at the same time the data is? (some agencies in the UK have attempted to subvert their Freedom of Information Act by 'supplying' the relevant documents in a password protected archive, and then not giving the password).
Yours sincerely,
Joshua Grainger
From: RODGERS, Wayne
New Zealand Police
Dear Mr Grainger
I can assure you that the password will be supplied to you when the disk is posted. I will send the password to you via e-mail.
If you have an issue with the password protection then I will not apply one. The intention is merely to protect the integrity of the contents of the disk should someone else access it.
I will wait to hear from you once you have decided what information you will request be released.
Yours sincerely
Wayne Rodgers
Inspector
Manager: Corporate Instrument Team
PNHQ level 13
Ext 44137
DD 04 474 9537
M 0274 578 443
E [email address]
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From: RODGERS, Wayne
New Zealand Police
Dear Mr Grainger
The purpose of this contact is to gain confirmation from you that the information supplied to you on 9 October 2012 satisfies your request. My intention is to close this request file on Monday 22 October and to advise you that should you later wish to request any further information you can do that at : [New Zealand Police request email]
If you are dissatisfied with my response, you have the right to complain to the Office of the Ombudsmen to seek an investigation and review of my decision.
Yours sincerely
Wayne Rodgers
Inspector
Manager: Corporate Instrument Team
PNHQ level 13
Ext 44137
DD 04 474 9537
M 0274 578 443
E [email address]
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From: Joshua Grainger
Dear RODGERS, Wayne,
Yes, feel free to close this request at the moment. I am thinking at the moment how to best prioritize what information I want to ensure that my request is efficient, so I may send a follow up request in the future.
Oh, and I see that the Police appear to have provided a requested chapter via email to another requester on the FYI website. Thank you for this, as email responses are what enables sites like FYI to function.
Yours sincerely,
Joshua Grainger
From: RODGERS, Wayne
New Zealand Police
Dear Mr Grainger
Thank you for the confirmation of closing this request
Yours Sincerely
Wayne Rodgers
Inspector
Manager: Corporate Instrument Team
PNHQ level 13
Ext 44137
DD 04 474 9537
M 0274 578 443
E [email address]
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The police will in fact provide chapters electronically if it is requested:
http://fyi.org.nz/request/police_manual_...
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