Dear GRIMSHAW, Bruce,

Thank you for your reply and your statement that you hope to assist me with my request as it relates to the Eastern Police District.

In response to the subsequent paragraphs in your reply could you please note the following:

1) It is my understanding of the OIA (Official Information Act 1982) that if a request needs to be transferred internally within the organisation it was directed to that is the responsibility of that organisation and not the responsibility of the requester. If my request needs to be transferred internally within New Zealand Police I would be grateful if you would arrange this.

2) What I am requesting (see the request above) are Structure / Organisation charts for the Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Eastern police districts. Over the last 20 months I have been provided with detailed Structure / Organisation charts for the Auckland City and Canterbury police districts and more simplified charts for the Northland, Waitemata and Counties-Manukau districts as a result of OIA requests I have made on the FYI.org.nz website. These charts were not generic and did not "mirror" each other but were specific for each district. If these charts exist for these five districts I think it is reasonable to assume that they also exist for the three districts I am enquiring about. In addition, a detailed breakdown of staffing for the Wellington Police District was released in response to another request on the FYI.org.nz website just four weeks ago. It is also my understanding of the OIA that no reason needs to given by a requester as to why they need the information being requested.

3) It is also my understanding of the Act that to be eligible to make a request the requester needs to be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, a person in New Zealand or a corporate entity. I can see nothing in the Act stating that a requester needs to provide two forms of photographic identification and I would be grateful if you could inform me of the reason you are asking me for this.

I hope this clarifies my request, which is now four days overdue.

Many thanks.

Yours sincerely,

Grant Carroll.