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LAW ENFORCEMENT CONDUCT COMMISSION ACT 2016 - SECT 38
Complaints made by prisoners
(1) If a prisoner informs a prison officer that the prisoner wishes to make a
complaint, the prison officer-- (a) must take all steps necessary to
facilitate the making of the complaint, and
(b) must immediately send,
unopened, any written matter addressed to a police officer (whether by name or
by reference to an office held by that officer), the Commissioner of Police or
Crime Commissioner (whether by name or by reference to that office) or to the
Commission to that addressee.
(2) In this section--
"prisoner" means any person in lawful detention or custody, and
"prison officer" means any person by whom the prisoner is detained, or in
whose custody the prisoner is, or who is in charge of the prisoner and who, if
a correctional officer within the meaning of the Crimes (Administration of
Sentences) Act 1999 , is authorised by or under that Act to accept
correspondence from a prisoner.
Note : Under clause 110 of the Crimes
(Administration of Sentences) Regulation 2014 a prisoner must not send any
letter otherwise than through the hands of a nominated officer within the
meaning of that Regulation.
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