8 Mar 2023

Officers photographed young people despte no policy - report

From Morning Report, 7:22 am on 8 March 2023

An internal police report shows officers were routinely photographing young people despite no policy allowing them to do so.

The report, from May 2021, was triggered after RNZ stories, and a joint investigation by Privacy Commission and IPCA.

That probe eventually found police were routinely and illegally photographing and filming young people and adults with little cause.

Reporter Hamish Cardwell has now obtained the police's analysis of the practice.