130Notices about police and administrative employee misconduct matters received by Commissioner

130 Notices about police and administrative employee misconduct matters received by Commissioner

130 Notices about police and administrative employee misconduct matters received by Commissioner

(1) As soon as practicable after receiving a complaint, a police officer or other member of the NSW Police Force must forward the complaint to the Commissioner.

Note.

Section 211F imposes a duty on police officers to report misconduct.

(2) The Commissioner is to give the LECC notice of any notifiable misconduct matter received by the Commissioner under this Part or of which the Commissioner becomes aware.

Note.

The LECC may refer notifiable misconduct matters about police misconduct or officer maladministration to the Commissioner for police investigation with recommendations—see section 47 of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission Act 2016.

(3) As soon as practicable after deciding under section 131 how to deal with a misconduct matter that is a notifiable misconduct matter, the Commissioner must, in accordance with any relevant misconduct matters management guidelines, notify the LECC of the Commissioner’s decision with respect to the misconduct matter.

(4) Nothing in this section requires notice of a misconduct matter to be given to the LECC if the LECC already has a copy of the misconduct matter.

s 130: Ins 1998 No 123, Sch 1 [3]. Am 2006 No 94, Sch 2 [25]. Subst 2016 No 61, Sch 5.1 [32].