Online scams are intended to manipulate or trick people into giving away their personal details, financial details, or money.

If you, or think someone you know, may have been the victim of an online scam, fraud, abuse or harassment,  you can report it online to Police.

Common forms of online scams include:

If you have found someone's property, you should try to reunite it with the owner. You could do this by asking people who live nearby or putting up a notice near to where you found the item.

If you find identification documents such as a driving licence or passport, for security reasons you should send them back to the issuing authority.

If you find a bankcard, please follow the instructions on the back of the card.

If you find an item in any of the areas below you should contact the manager of the premises to report the item as being found:

You can report non-urgent incidents of poor driving where you do not wish the offender to be prosecuted online to Police.

For Police to process your report you need to provide a registration plate number and make or colour of the vehicle you are reporting.

Please note that, as an informal report, video or photo evidence is not required and consequently any such submitted file or attachments will not be opened or viewed.

You may be able to find out if someone is in Police custody by completing a custody query report.

What you need to provide

You’ll need to tell us:

You can request a review of a formal warning you may have been issued by completing this online report.

Providing as much information as possible helps us in processing your query.

Note: this form is only for formal warning reviews and excludes traffic warnings, verbal warnings and harassment notices.

For further advice go to our Formal warnings FAQs page.

If you, your friends or whānau have experienced abuse, violence, threats, or intimidation motivated by hostility or prejudice, it is extremely important that you report it.

You can report a hate crime or incident online to police or by calling 105.

If you, or someone you know, has been hurt or threatened please report it to Police.

We understand it can be difficult, your information could help us hold the offender to account and make sure you, and other people in a similar situation, are kept safe.

Is it an emergency?

If you suspect a breach of the Russia Sanctions Act 2022 you can report it to Police.

Information that helps us in processing your report includes:

If your incident doesn't fit into any of the listed categories, or you want to tell us about criminal or suspicious activity in your community, you can report this to Police.