14 March 2022
IR-01-22-3241
Joshua Rogers
[FYI request #18444 email]
Dear Joshua
I refer to your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request received on 4 February 2022 for
information about crashes involving Police vehicles in Hamilton City.
You requested:
I am writing to request an excel file on al the car crashes which have involved an
officer's vehicle (where the police vehicle has made contact with another vehicle)
or a pursuit which involved a vehicle crashing (Police vehicle or member of the
public) in the Hamilton City area.
Specifical y I am requesting from the date range of 01/05/2018 - 04/02/2022 (or to
current date)
I request that the excel file contain the fol owing columns:
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Date & Time
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Location (E.g. Hamilton Central/Victoria Street)
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CARD event number
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Police Vehicle Involved (Y/N)
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Pursuit (Y/N)
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Result Code
As your request is for two distinct sets of data, the spreadsheet included with my
response contains two tabs detailing crashes from pursuits, and al recorded crashes
respectively.
The spreadsheet contains all fleeing driver events in the Hamilton City Area where a
crash was recorded. The Fleeing Driver Notification database does not record whether it
was the offender or Police that crashed. A result code is not a field recorded in the
Fleeing Driver Notification database.
Please note this data is only available up to the end of November 2021, at which time
Police transitioned to an upgraded Fleeing Driver Notification Database, of which
reporting capability is not yet functional.
Police National Headquarters 180 Molesworth Street. PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
Telephone: 04 474 9499. Fax: 04 498 7400. www.police.govt.nz
Information on all crashes which involved a Police vehicle has been obtained from
Police’s insurer. Communications and Resource Deployment system (CARD) event
numbers are not usually captured in the claim details as this information is not linked with
any other Police systems. Location details can only be supplied to the Waikato District
level as further granularity is captured by way of free text and it is therefore difficult to
isolate to a specific area, such as Hamilton City.
It is possible that the same crash appears in both datasets.
I trust this information is satisfactory in answering your request.
Yours sincerely
Superintendent Steve Greally
Director: National Road Policing Centre
Police National Headquarters
