Police were lauding their counterterrorism intelligence system shortly after the mosque attacks, even though they knew parts of it were in a woeful state. Police did not review their performance in the lead-up to the mosque attacks, instead they fed into the Royal Commission of Inquiry. File photo Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson In April 2019, a month after 51 people were killed, the national intelligence manager said the system's effectiveness over the past decade "deserves credit" and should be "celebrated". But police knew the intelligence section was haemorrhaging staff and had been panned in internal reviews - and even now has major problems, according to documents released under the Official Information Act (OIA).