Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 740

740 Public interest monitor

(1) The Governor in Council may appoint a person (the
"public interest monitor" ) to monitor—

(a) applications for, and the use of, surveillance device warrants, retrieval warrants and covert search warrants; and

(b) applications for approvals of the use of surveillance devices under emergency authorisations; and

(c) the giving of official warnings for consorting; and

(d) the making of public safety orders by commissioned officers under the Peace and Good Behaviour Act 1982 .

(2) The Governor in Council may also appoint as many deputy public interest monitors as the Minister considers necessary.

(3) The Governor in Council may, in the appointment, fix the terms and conditions of the appointment.

(4) The Public Sector Act 2022 does not apply to the appointment of a monitor.

(5) A monitor must not be a person who is, or who is a member of, or who is employed in or by or to help, any of the following—

(a) the director of public prosecutions;

(b) the office of the director of public prosecutions;

(c) CCC;

(d) the police service;

(e) the principal commissioner under the Family and Child Commission Act 2014 .