New Zealand Police made 72 requests for information about users of auction website Trade Me in the Bay of Plenty last year.
Trade Me's annual Transparency Report showed the main reasons police requested data about Bay of Plenty Trade Me members, in the year to June 30, was related to homicide or missing persons, drugs and non-delivery of goods.
The report showed that nationally 1795 requests were made in total by a range of different government agencies.
This was a drop of 14.5 per cent on the previous year and the lowest number of requests the company had since it began reporting the data in 2014.
Police requests made up the biggest number of data requests with 1348 but that was down from 1559 in 2017 and a peak of 1840 in 2015.