Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (April 2021)

Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (April 2021)

Date Published: 
April 2021

In keeping with the Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2016-2018, and as Administrator of the Arms Act 1983, Police is releasing its responses to some recent Official Information Act requests, where it is considered they contain data and information that has wider public interest.

For more information, go to Firearms and safety.

Reference

Date of request

Information requested

IR-01-21-7960 (PDF 359KB)

8 April 2021

The police has updated their firearms crime statistics sheet as they do (https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/firearms-data) however this information does not include the numbers for the crimes committed by firearms license holders and those committed by non firearms license holders. Can you please provide this information for me.