We sometimes proactively release records that are of public interest.
Our archives hold:
- New Zealand Police’s security intelligence records from 1919 to 1941, and from 1945 to 1949
- All the Security Intelligence Bureau’s records from 1941 to 1945
- Most of the New Zealand Police Special Branch records from 1949 to 1956
- All the New Zealand Security Service’s records from 1956 to 1969
- All our own records, from 1969 to date.
Common types of information held includes:
- Reports on organisations and individuals of security interest
- Administrative and policy information
- Operational information.
We are committed to telling our story by releasing as many historical records as we can over time while maintaining our obligations to respond to Privacy Act and the Official Information Act requests within legal time frames.