Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The Ombudsman must assess a police complaint (whether made to the Ombudsman or a notified police complaint) and decide how to deal with it, or to decline to deal with it, under this Part.
(2) The Ombudsman must decide:
(a) under section 67, to decline to deal with the complaint; or
(b) under section 69, to deal with the complaint by conciliation; or
(c) under section 78, to deal with the complaint by the police complaints resolution process; or
(d) under section 80, to deal with the complaint by investigation by a Police Standards Command member for which:
(i) the Commissioner reports to the other parties to the complaint; or
(ii) the Ombudsman reports to the parties to the complaint; or
(e) under section 86, to deal with the complaint by an Ombudsman investigation.
(3) The Ombudsman must make the decision as soon as practicable after:
(a) for a notified police complaint – receipt of the notice under section 65(2); or
(b) for a police complaint made to the Ombudsman – the complaint is made.
(4) For subsection (1), the Ombudsman may:
(a) make the inquiries the Ombudsman considers appropriate; or
(b) ask the officer in charge of the Police Standards Command to make the inquiries the Ombudsman considers appropriate.