New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT CONDUCT COMMISSION ACT 2016 - SECT 14

14 Misconduct matters management guidelines

(1) Without limiting the agreements that may be entered into, the Commission may from time to time enter into written agreements with the Commissioner of Police and the Crime Commissioner concerning all or any of the following--

(a) the kinds of misconduct matters that should or should not be investigated,

(b) the kinds of misconduct matters required to be notified to the Commission (
"notifiable misconduct matters" ),

(c) the kinds of misconduct matters that would ordinarily be investigated by the Commissioner of Police, the Crime Commission or the Commission,

(d) the kinds of misconduct matters that should or should not be the subject of oversight by the Commission under Part 7 and the form of such oversight,

(e) the manner of dealing with misconduct matters that should not be the subject of such oversight,

(f) the level of detail required in notifying or referring a misconduct matter to the Commission, Commissioner of Police or Crime Commissioner,

(g) the giving of notice with respect to misconduct matters to the Commission, the Commissioner of Police, the Crime Commissioner, the officer the subject of the misconduct matter, complainants and referring authorities,

(h) arrangements with respect to the monitoring by the Commission under section 101 of police investigations and Crime Commission investigations of misconduct matters,

(i) the kind of misconduct information that is required to be registered in the misconduct matters information system,

(j) any other matter prescribed by the regulations.

(2) The Commission may issue guidelines reflecting agreements entered into under this section.

(3) If the Commission, the Commissioner of Police or the Crime Commissioner does not enter into an agreement on any matter referred to in subsection (1), the Commission's opinion is to be determinative as to the contents of any guideline concerning the matter and the application of the guideline.

(4) The Commission is to make the agreements and guidelines publicly available.