Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 13

13 Discharge of community police officers’ functions etc.

(1) Community police officers appointed for an indigenous local government area shall have and may exercise within that area the functions, duties and powers conferred on them by a local law of the indigenous local government for the area.

(2) Also, for the administration and enforcement of the liquor provisions in an indigenous local government area, the police officer in charge for the area may authorise a community police officer to exercise in the area the powers of—

(a) an investigator under the Liquor Act 1992 , part 7 ; or

Note—

For exercise of powers by community police officers under the Liquor Act 1992 , part 7 , see section 174A of that Act.

(b) a police officer under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 , sections 60 to 62 .

(3) For subsection (2) (b) , the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 , sections 60 to 62 , apply as if a reference in the sections to a police officer were a reference to a community police officer.

(4) If at any time a police officer is, in execution of the officer’s duty, stationed in or present in an indigenous local government area for which community police officers are appointed, the community police officers must discharge and exercise their functions, duties and powers subject to the direction and control of that police officer.

(5) It is lawful for a community police officer to use reasonable force in the discharge of the officer’s function of maintaining peace and good order in the area for which the officer is appointed.