The spy agency took two years to implement a major shift in how it targeted threats, but once it did, the rewards were almost immediate.
NZ Security Intelligence Service director Rebecca Kitteridge speaks after the release of the final report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques.
Photo: RNZ / Sam Rillstone
The Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) got 10 leads on right-wing extremists in the lead-up to the Christchurch mosque attacks.
This came within a few months of the SIS shifting from an overriding focus on Islamists and threats it knew about, to looking much harder at ones it did not, notably white supremacists.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Guards for immunisation centres, vaccine shipments amid security concerns
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Just the facts - A closer look at the first four vaccines to be rolled out in New Zealand. How they work, why we need them and who developed them. Video / NZ Herald
Security has become a focus amid emerging potential threats to the supply of vaccines and those places set up as mass immunisation centres.
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