Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if an investigator is given a report by a corrections officer under section 156 about an alleged disciplinary breach by a detainee.
(2) After considering the report and making any investigation the investigator considers appropriate, the investigator may do 1 or more of the following if the investigator believes, on reasonable grounds, that it is appropriate in the circumstances:
(a) take no further action in relation to the report;
(b) counsel the detainee;
(c) warn the detainee about committing a disciplinary breach;
(d) reprimand the detainee;
(e) refer the allegation to the chief police officer;
(f) subject to section 161 (Grounds for investigative segregation), direct that the detainee be segregated from other detainees for the purposes of this part;
(g) give an administrator a report (an investigator's report ) about the alleged disciplinary breach.
(3) An investigator's report must be given to an administrator as soon as possible, and must set out the following:
(a) details (or a copy) of the corrections officer's report;
(b) details of any referral of the allegation to the chief police officer;
(c) if subsection (2) (f) applies—
(i) details of the segregation directed; and
(ii) the investigator's reasons for the direction; and
(iii) a recommendation about the detainee's segregation;
(d) a recommendation for any action by the administrator under section 158;
(e) anything else prescribed by regulation.
(4) A referral under subsection (2) (e) must be in writing and be accompanied by the investigator's report.
(5) A corrections officer who is also an investigator must not exercise any function as an investigator in relation to any report made by the officer under section 156.