Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 269

269 Annual report by report entity

(1) The report entity for a law enforcement agency must, as soon as practicable after 30 June in each year, prepare a report of the work and activities of the law enforcement agency under this chapter for the preceding 12 months.

(2) The report entity must give a copy of the report to the chief executive officer of the agency and—

(a) if the agency is the police service—the Minister; or

(b) if the agency is the CCC—the parliamentary committee chairperson.

(3) The report—

(a) must include comments on the comprehensiveness and adequacy of the reports that were given to the report entity by the chief executive officer of the law enforcement agency under section 268 ; and

(b) must not disclose any information that identifies any suspect or a participant in an operation or that is likely to lead to the person or participant being identified.

(4) The chief executive officer must advise the Minister or parliamentary committee chairperson of any information in the report that, in the chief executive officer’s opinion, should be excluded from the report before the report is tabled in the Legislative Assembly because the information, if made public, could reasonably be expected to—

(a) endanger a person’s safety; or

(b) prejudice an investigation or prosecution; or

(c) compromise any law enforcement agency’s operational activities or methodologies.

(5) The Minister or parliamentary committee chairperson must exclude information from the report if satisfied on the advice of the chief executive officer of any of the grounds mentioned in subsection (4) .

(6) The Minister or chairperson must table the report in the Legislative Assembly within 14 sitting days after receiving the report.

(7) This section does not require particulars of an authorised operation to be included in a report for a year if the operation had not ended as at 30 June in that year.

(8) However, the particulars must instead be included in the report for the year in which the operation ends.