Police are introducing new jobs and technology to improve how they handle requests for information.<\/p>\n
The Ombudsman has found police unreasonably extended an Official Information Act (OIA) response to RNZ from mid-May to the end of July – 10 weeks on top of the usual four-week response period.<\/p>\n
The OIA request was about a search and rescue operation. Police eventually responded in early July.<\/p>\n
Official Information Act responses are meant to be completed in 20 working days.<\/p>\n
Ombudsman John Allen investigated and said NZ Police told him it had set up a standalone unit to handle information requests.<\/p>\n
Police are also introducing new roles to increase efficiency, and implementing the first phase of a new technology solution designed to replace the tool used currently to manage information requests and reduce delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are introducing new jobs and technology to improve how they handle requests for information. The Ombudsman has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-537219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}