D Suicide 157 New Zealand ranks 13th highest in the OECD for suicide rates. In 2014/2015 564 people took their own life. This number has remained relatively static over the past 8 years. Males are more likely than females to take their lives and Māori men are most at risk with 93 deaths last year. 158 The Government has taken steps to address youth suicide but adult men remain a significant issue. Further, the Police have reported a 100% increase in the number of callouts in Canterbury relating to suicide behaviour. 159 The Commission recommends that the Committee urge the Government to: E  take similar steps for adult males to those taken in regard to youth in New Zealand; and  to ensure mental health services are adequately funded, particularly in Canterbury. Operation 8 LOIPR Please provide an update on the prosecution of the four cases arising from Operation Eight, which was carried out on 15 October 2007. Please provide information on the investigations by the Independent Police Conduct Authority into police conduct during the Operation Eight anti-terrorism raids. Have those investigations been concluded? If yes, please outline the recommendations that were made and the measures taken to implement them. (Para 15) 160 On 15 October 2007, 17 people were arrested in an exercise that became known as Operation 8. The exercise was the result of months of visual surveillance and interception of private communications by the police that had been authorized in the belief that the surveillance was necessary to prevent terrorist activity88. The Solicitor General later found the use of the Terrorism Suppression Act to obtain the interception warrants was justified but that there was insufficient evidence to authorise prosecution under that Act. 161 The implications of the use of the Terrorism Suppression Act was the subject of much public discussion and led to renewed concern about the effectiveness of the criminal 88 As defined in the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 Page 43 of 93 Human Rights Commission submission to the Human Rights Committee in relation to New Zealand’s 6th periodic review under the ICCPR