Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 12

12 Community police officers

(1) The function of maintaining peace and good order in all parts of an indigenous local government area is that of persons who hold appointments for the time being as community police officers for the area.

(2) An indigenous local government may appoint such number of persons as it considers necessary for the peace and good order of its area and the indigenous local government shall equip the persons appointed with a uniform and such other marks of authority as it thinks fit to enable them to discharge their function.

(3) A person appointed under subsection (2) must have the qualifications prescribed under a regulation.

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the issues the indigenous local government may consider when deciding whether to appoint someone under subsection (2) .

(5) In this section—

"qualifications" includes knowledge, skills and experience.