Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 101

101 Police officer may issue police protection notice

(1) A police officer may issue a notice (a
"police protection notice" ) against a person (the
"respondent" ) if the police officer—

(a) reasonably believes the respondent has committed domestic violence; and

(b) if the respondent is not present at the same location as the police officer—has made a reasonable attempt to locate and talk to the respondent, including by telephone, to afford the respondent natural justice in relation to the issuing of a police protection notice; and

(c) reasonably believes that no domestic violence order or recognised interstate order has been made or police protection notice issued that—

(i) names the respondent as a respondent and another person involved in the domestic violence mentioned in paragraph (a) as the aggrieved; or

(ii) names the respondent as the aggrieved and another person involved in the domestic violence mentioned in paragraph (a) as a respondent; and

(d) reasonably believes a police protection notice is necessary or desirable to protect the aggrieved from domestic violence; and

(e) reasonably believes the respondent should not be taken into custody under division 3 .

(2) This section is subject to sections 102 and 103 .