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Professional Conduct Statistics (December 2020)

Date Published: 
April 2021
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The statistics reported in the attached documents come from the NZ Police Professional Conduct database (IAPro). These official statistics relate to reported incidents received and refer to calendar years.

These statistics will be updated quarterly (four times per year) showing the year-to date (YTD) position.

The statistics show the number of incidents that were reported in the quarters shown, regardless of when the incident actually occurred (e.g. an incident that occurred in December 2017 may not be formally reported until January 2018).

The statistics also show the number of NZ Police employees involved in the incidents (that is those that have had allegations made against them), and the number of allegations that have been made.

The statistics include incidents that have been resolved (completed), and those that are yet to be resolved (ongoing).

The statistics are in some cases divided into the 12 Police Districts of the New Zealand Police structure. In addition there are NZ Police groups (generally referred to as ‘Service Centres’) that do not come under a particular District, but are general to the organisation as a whole.

The statistics may be further grouped by:

Because an incident can involve several employees facing several allegations, which may be from several different types of conduct or actions, the figures shown cannot always be reconciled exactly.

 

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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.

 

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National Wastewater Testing Programme - Quarter 3 2020

Date Published: 
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Results are now available for the third quarter 2020 (Q3 2020) of nationwide wastewater testing, which covers around 75% of New Zealand’s population.

The drugs that have been tested for are methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, MDMA and fentanyl.

Key findings: July – September 2020 (Q3 2020)

  • Average weekly use of the drugs detected in Q3 2020 had an estimated street value of $8.0 million.
  • The average consumption of all drugs tested for during Q3 2020 was higher than when compared with Q2 2020. This is likely due to changes in supply and demand behaviour as New Zealand moved out of COVID-19 restrictions.

Methamphetamine

  • Methamphetamine use increased during Q3 2020 to a weekly average of 12.6 kilograms. This is an increase of 27 percent from the average total weekly load in Q2 2020 (9.9 kg).
  • Northland, Eastern and Bay of Plenty Districts again had the highest methamphetamine consumption per capita.

MDMA

  • MDMA consumption had a weekly average of 7.8 kilograms during Q3 2020. This is a slight increase compared with Q2 2020, where the average weekly consumption was 7.1 kilograms.
  • Southern, Wellington and Canterbury Districts continued to consume the most MDMA per capita throughout Q3.

Cocaine

  • The average national weekly consumption of cocaine was 0.4 kilograms during Q3 2020. This is a slight increase when compared with Q2 2020 where 0.1 kilograms was consumed.
  • Tāmaki Makaurau, Canterbury and Southern Districts consumed the most cocaine per capita during Q3 2020.

Fentanyl and Heroin

  • Tasman District had an unusual fentanyl increase during the week of testing in August 2020, which significantly impacted the quarterly average. This was investigated and found to be a testing anomaly.
  • Apart from this, fentanyl and heroin were rarely detected above the limit of quantification in Q3 2020 and no patterns of use are apparent. These results are consistent with other indicators that the opiate user population in New Zealand is very low.
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