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Dear Asher,

YOUR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

I refer to your application dated 28 April 2018 in which you seek access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the Act) as follows:

"Under Freedom of Information please provide reports and/or briefing papers prepared for senior officials and/or the Minister on people smuggling. I am seeking the final copies of these reports and only those that are high level summaries of activities or operations.

For example, I am looking for reports that refer to the number of people smuggling interceptions taken place in a given year, and the number of potential illegal maritime arrivals intercepted.

Please limit this request to reports produced from 2000 to 2017

Information considered irrelevant to the scope of your request"

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From: Asher Hirsch [mailto:[FOI #4544 email]]
Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2018 5:39 PM
To: FOI
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Reports and briefing papers on people smuggling

Dear Australian Federal Police,

Under Freedom of Information please provide reports and/or briefing papers prepared for senior officials and/or the Minister on people smuggling. I am seeking the final copies of these reports and only those that are high level summaries of activities or operations.

For example, I am looking for reports that refer to the number of people smuggling interceptions taken place in a given year, and the number of potential illegal maritime arrivals intercepted.

Please limit this request to reports produced from 2000 to 2017.

Yours faithfully,

Asher Hirsch

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Dear Asher,

I refer to your FOI request with reference CRM2018/606.

On preliminary assessment, it has been identified that your request, as it
currently stands, is voluminous and onerous to complete. This is due to
the fact that you have requested records between 2000 – 2017, totalling 17
years of information. Further, your request is quite broad, where you
refer to “people smuggling” without the refinement of a particular country
or region and without any other specifying factors.

To avoid a practical refusal under the FOI Act on the grounds that your
request would be a diversion of resources, you might wish to consider
narrowing the scope of your request considerably to records relating to a
shorter time period (for example, a five year period), to a particular
country and potentially to one specific document type, such as Ministerial
Briefs or Senate Estimates Briefs etc.

I would be grateful if you consider the above and advise whether you would
be agreeable to reducing the scope of your request to a more manageable
size.

Also, please note that this team is experiencing a very high volume of
requests and whilst every endeavour is made to meet timeframes there will
be unavoidable delays at this time. 

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Regards,

SOPHIE (AFP20849)
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Dear Mr Hirsch,

Thank you for your email below requesting an update on the progress of your FOI request.

Your request is currently in the final clearance stage of the FOI process. I anticipate a final decision being provided to you by Friday the 27 July 2018. This is assuming there are no hold up to the clearance process.

We apologise for the delay in finalising your request, however, please be assured that we are endeavouring to complete the request as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Elise (AFP12830)
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CHIEF COUNSEL
AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE

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-----Original Message-----
From: Asher Hirsch [mailto:[FOI #4544 email]]
Sent: Saturday, 7 July 2018 2:02 PM
To: FOI
Subject: Re: Thankyou for your Email - Freedom of Information [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dear FOI,

Please can you provide an update on this request. I note it is long overdue.

Yours sincerely,

Asher Hirsch

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Dear Mr Hirsch,

Please see attached correspondence from this office regarding FOI request
CRM2018/606.

Kind regards

Elise (AFP12830)
FOI OFFICER - FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
CHIEF COUNSEL

Tel +61(0) 2 61316131
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