Victims (Police service to victims) - Police Manual chapter

Date Published: 
July 2022

This chapter details Police’s responsibilities to victims and explains the procedures to be followed when supporting victims of an offence. An upated version of this chapter will be uploaded shortly.

Social media policy - Police Manual chapter

Date Published: 
August 2024

This chapter helps guide Police employees when using work and personal social media accounts and interacting with Police's online communities. Some parts of this chapter have been considered not appropriate for release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). In this chapter, the relevant sections of the Act that would apply have been identified.

Retention and disposal of Police records - Police Manual chapter

Date Published: 
July 2022

The requirements set out in this chapter are mandatory for the retention and disposal of all Police records. This chapter focuses on physical records.

Police information and records management - Police Manual chapter

Date Published: 
July 2022
This policy provides direction and guidance on the management of information and records at New Zealand Police.

Policy permitting destruction of certain paper-based offence reports - Police Manual chapter

Date Published: 
August 2024
This chapter relates to 111 and 105 calls, online form submissions, or over the counter requests for service from the public, and entering those requests into Police electronic systems for the purpose of preventing and responding to crime and helping victims.

Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (July 2022)

Date Published: 
July 2022

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-01-22-19002 (PDF 362KB) 30 June 2022 Can I please get a breakdown of firearms and accessories seized since May 1st 2021?

In particular, I'm after the number of MSSAs, and other accessories such as high capacity magazines that were the target of the buy-back schemes in the wake of the Christchurch shootings.

IR-01-22-19185 (PDF 415KB)

2 June 2022

A list of incidents police were called to involving a discharge of a firearm in Auckland (including Counties Manukau, Waitemata and Auckland City districts) from January 1, 2022, to date, broken down in a table by date, street name and suburb.

IR-01-22-15799 (PDF 387KB)

25 May 2022

How many shootings there has been this past 2 years of 2021 and 2022 to date. And how many of these incidents have been cleared.