New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

POLICE REGULATION 2008 - REG 50

50 Victimisation

(1) A police officer must not, in relation to any other police officer:

(a) fail to approve, or fail to recommend, the promotion of that other officer, or

(b) approve or recommend:

(i) the taking of section 80 dismissal action, or

(ii) the making of a section 173 order or section 181D order,

with respect to that other officer, or

(c) direct, approve or recommend the transfer of that other officer to another position in the NSW Police Force, or

(d) make, approve or recommend a decision which detrimentally affects the benefits or awards of that other officer, or

(e) fail to approve or recommend that that other officer receive education or training which could reasonably be expected to improve that other officer's opportunities for promotion or to confer some other advantage on that other officer, or

(f) change the duties of that other officer so that they are not appropriate to that other officer's salary or position or approve or recommend such a change, or

(g) otherwise act to the detriment of that other officer,

in retaliation against that other officer because that other officer has made a protected report in relation to unlawful conduct.

(2) In this clause,
"protected report" means report under this Division, a complaint under Part 8A of the Act, a protected disclosure within the meaning of the Protected Disclosures Act 1994 or a disclosure to another police officer.

Section 206 of the Act provides that it is an offence (maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or 12 months' imprisonment, or both) to take detrimental action against a police officer where an allegation of misconduct or criminal activity has been made by that officer in the performance of his or her duty or in accordance with the procedures for making allegations set out in the Act.