Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 707

707 Alternative to destruction if drug matter is thing used in the commission of a drug offence

(1) This section applies despite section 705 .

(2) If the commissioner is reasonably satisfied drug matter in the possession of the police service is a thing used or intended for use in the commission of a drug offence that may be destroyed under section 705 , the commissioner may direct that the thing first be photographed and then disposed of in the way the commissioner considers appropriate instead of destroying it under section 705 .

Example—

The commissioner may give a hydroponics system previously used for growing dangerous drugs to a school for use for an agricultural purpose.

(3) For subsection (2) , the commissioner may consider it appropriate that—

(a) drug matter that is a batch of a dangerous drug be disposed of by giving the drug matter to the chief executive (corrective services) for training purposes under the Corrective Services Act 2006 , chapter 6 , part 13A ; or

(b) drug matter be disposed of by giving the drug matter to the chief executive officer, however described, of any of the following entities for the purposes of an illicit drug profiling program or project, however described—

(i) the Australian Federal Police;

(ii) a police service of another State;

(iii) an entity established under the law of the Commonwealth or a State to investigate corruption or crime.

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the ways that the commissioner may consider are appropriate for disposing of the drug matter.