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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.

Processing arrest - 1
25 Jul 2022 2:05pm News:
Bay of Plenty

Arrests in Whakamarama homicide

Police have charged two men for the murder of Eli Johnson in Whakamarama last month. More

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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.
Steve Davis from Amateur Radio Emergency Communications points to the position the woman was found, around 5km from the farmhous
22 Jul 2022 10:20am TenOne Magazine

Many hands make light work

Facing a large search area of variable terrain, and with time against them, SAR partnerships come to the fore. More

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The Holden proudly displayed in the foyer of Southward Car Museum, Paraparaumu. Photo from Southward Car Museum.
20 Jul 2022 1:47pm TenOne Magazine

Holden on to the end

​​​​​​​From workhorse to museum piece – preserving Police’s four-wheel heritage.More

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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.

 

National Wastewater Testing Programme - Quarter 1 2022

Date Published: 
July 2022

Results are now available for the first quarter (2022) of nationwide wastewater testing, which covers around 75% of New Zealand’s population.

The drugs tested for are methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, MDMA and fentanyl. Both heroin and fentanyl were not detected in reportable quantities during Q1.

Key findings: January - March 2022 (Q1 2022)

  • Population updates were applied to some sites in January 2022. These corrections allow for a more accurate representation of consumption within each catchment zone. This has resulted in changes to previously reported per capita consumption rates for some locations/districts.  Most notably, the population update for Northland district resulted in a 27 percent decrease in per capita consumption rates. This means the per capita results from Q1 2022 cannot be directly compared with results from previous reports.
  • Social harm cost estimates have been included in this report. These are derived from the New Zealand Illicit Drug Harm Index 2020 (McFadden M, Bellamore L & MacDonald B. (2021). The New Zealand Illicit Drug Harm Index 2020: Research report. Wellington: Ministry of Health). The Drug Harm Index 2020 provides a conservative measure of the harms associated with the use of illicit drugs in New Zealand and considers both personal and community harms.

Methamphetamine

  • An average of 15.5 kilograms of methamphetamine was consumed per week in Q1 2022. This was less than Q4 2021 but remains above the average quantity detected over the previous four quarters (nine percent or 1.3 kilograms).
  • Per capita methamphetamine consumption was highest in Eastern district.
  • The 15.5 kilograms of methamphetamine consumed equates to an estimated cost of $17.2 million in social harm per week in Q1 2022.
  • Approximately $7.8 million per week was generated from methamphetamine distribution across New Zealand sample sites in Q1 2022.

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

  • An average of 7.0 kilograms of MDMA was consumed per week in Q1 2022. This was an increase when compared with Q4 2021 and was above the average quantity detected over the previous four quarters (50 percent or 2.3 kilograms).
  • Of the sites tested, Southern district consumed the most MDMA per capita during Q1 2022.
  • The 7.0 kilograms of MDMA consumed equates to an estimated cost of $0.97 million in social harm per week in Q1 2022.
  • Approximately $1.4 million per week was generated from MDMA distribution across New Zealand sample sites in Q1 2022.

Cocaine

  • An average of 0.5 kilograms of cocaine was consumed each week in Q1 2022. This was more than Q4 2021 but was below the average quantity detected over the previous four quarters (12 percent or 0.1 kilograms).
  • Tāmaki Makaurau continued to consume the most cocaine per capita in Q1 2022.
  • The 0.5 kilograms of cocaine consumed equates to an estimated cost of $0.15 million in social harm per week in Q1 2022.
  • Approximately $0.2 million per week was generated from cocaine distribution across New Zealand sample sites in Q1 2022.