Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 726

726 Definitions for pt 4

In this part—

"agency arrangement" means an arrangement, or series of arrangements, between the commissioner and the chief executive officer, by whatever name known, of a department or other agency of the State or the Commonwealth providing for the following—

(a) the transfer of possession of a batch of a dangerous drug from the possession of the department or agency into the possession of the police service;

(b) that the batch of the dangerous drug is to be used for training in the police service;

(c) the type and extent of the training for which the batch of the dangerous drug is to be used;

(d) what is to be done with the batch of the dangerous drug at the end of the training;

(e) anything else the parties to the arrangement consider appropriate.

Example of an agency arrangement made up of a series of arrangements—

A first arrangement between the commissioner and an agency could establish basic principles to govern the supply of dangerous drugs to the commissioner for training purposes. A second arrangement between the commissioner and the agency could establish particular procedures to be followed for transferring particular types of dangerous drugs between the commissioner and the agency, subject to the basic principles established in the first arrangement. A third arrangement between the commissioner and the agency could provide for the special circumstances applying to a batch of 1 of the particular types of dangerous drugs mentioned in the second arrangement. For the batch mentioned in the third arrangement, the agency arrangement may be ascertained from a reading of all 3 arrangements.

(a) authorising—

(i) the keeping of a batch of a dangerous drug; and

(ii) the use of the batch in training in the police service; and

(b) stating the conditions under which the keeping and use of the batch of the dangerous drug is authorised.