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1. OIA-120238.pdf [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   ...request: Crimes Act reform and citizen’s arrest No. Date Document type Document title Decisions on release 1. 23/05/2024 Aide memoire Self-defence in a retail context Released in full 2. 18/09/2024 Briefing Retail crime – initial advice on private security guards Some information withheld under ss 9(2)(a) and 9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act 3. 11/11/2024 Briefing Ministerial Advisory Group for Victims of Retail Crime – arrest and defence of property proposals 4. 12/11/2024 Letter...

2. 2025 NZPSPLA 126.pdf [pdf, 75 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 126 IN THE MATTER OF An application for a Certificate of Approval filed by AARON NELSON under the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) HEARD remotely on 4 November 2025 APPEARANCES A Nelson – applicant Constable K Murphy for NZ Police DECISION [1] Police oppose Aaron Nelson’s application for a certificate of approval (COA) because they do not consider he is suitable to be a responsible security worker because o...

3. 2022 NZPSPLA 042.pdf [pdf, 101 KB]

   NZPSPLA 042 IN THE MATTER OF The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 AND IN THE MATTER OF Complaint against MATTHEW ARPUTHARAJ PETERS made under s 74 of the Act DECISION [1] Czeslaw Jones has made a complaint against Matthew Arputharaj Peters in relation to his conduct whilst working at JB Hi-Fi Queensgate, Lower Hutt on 14 October 2022. Mr Peters holds a Certificate of Approval (COA) that is valid until 28 May 2026. He has contin...

4. 2022 NZPSPLA 043.pdf [pdf, 94 KB]

   NZPSPLA 043 IN THE MATTER OF The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 AND IN THE MATTER OF Complaint against PLATFORM 4 GROUP LIMITED and BOYD POMARE made under s 73 of the Act DECISION [1] Czeslaw Jones has made a complaint against Platform 4 Group Limited in relation to the conduct of one of their security staff, Mr Boyd Pomare, who was working at JB Hi- Fi Queensgate, Lower Hutt on 29 September 2022. Mr Pomare holds a certificat...

5. 2023NZPSPLA 062 [pdf, 100 KB]

   [2023] NZPSPLA 062 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint under s 74 of The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against TYLER CROFT HEARD via Teams Video hearing on 13 September 2023 APPEARANCES Graeme Axford, complainant Tyler Croft, certificate holder DECISION [1] Graeme Axford says Tyler Croft is guilty of misconduct or unsatisfactory conduct by sending him abusive, expletive ridden, threatening messages on Facebook messenger....

6. HE and SD v QXF [2011] NZIACDT 32 (20 September 2011) [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...Adviser took fees from clients, banked them into his own bank account, failed to account for them and thereby committed theft. [13.4] The Adviser was interviewed and admitted stealing the money. [14] The complaint was supported by a report from a private security organisation that provided investigative services. The report included briefs of evidence, a transcript of an interview and other material. [15] The Complainants in this matter provided evidence of funds going into the Advise...

7. Budapest-Convention-and-Related-Matters-Legislation-Amendment-Bill_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 545 KB]

   ...criminalise particular behaviours involving computers, such as interfering with a computer system, computer-enabled fraud, and the distribution of child sexual exploitation materials. The Convention then supports cross-border criminal investigations into these crimes by requiring specific investigatory tools for preserving and gathering digital evidence, and processes for sharing that evidence between party states. 14 Acceding to the Convention will allow New...

8. 2024 NZPSPLA 099.pdf [pdf, 72 KB]

   [2024] NZPSPLA 099 IN THE MATTER OF Complaint by under ss 73 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) DECISION [1] TR has filed a complaint against PL. He says that PL has breached a condition of his licence and contravened the Act by undertaking an address search on him without a valid reason. [2] PL says he was engaged to find TR’s address as his client had documents to serve on him. PL advises that TR has already filed...

9. [2015] NZEmpC 99 NZ Meat Workers Union Inc v South Pacific Meats Ltd [pdf, 249 KB]

   ...is that s 177(4) (set out above) applies to the circumstances of this case to preclude the Authority from referring the question of law that it has posed for the Court. The defendants’ case in support of strike-out [13] This relies on the privative provision contained in s 177(4) of the Act. The subsection must be read in a broader context of s 177 under which the referral of the question of law was made. This section has already been set out at [7]. [14] Mr Malone relies on...

10. PR v HG 69/2016 LCRO [pdf, 269 KB]

    ...lawyer wrote to Ms PR. Mr HG says that immediately upon being put on notice that Mr HG would be notifying the NZLS she immediately tried to withdraw part of the claim because she knew she had been caught out without evidence. He links this to the private investigator having been retained to gather evidence and infers Ms PR still had no evidence she could rely on to support the deceit claim.24 [35] Mr HG sent an email to his lawyer on 2 September 2014 referring to enquiries made of...