57Handling confidential information—the Act, s 219(2)(i)

57 Handling confidential information—the Act, s 219(2)(i)

57 Handling confidential information—the Act, s 219(2)(i)

(1) A member of the NSW Police Force or a student of policing—

(a) must treat all information that comes to the member’s or student’s knowledge in the member’s or student’s official capacity as strictly confidential, and

(b) must not, on any account without proper authority, disclose the information to anyone.

(2) In particular, a member of the NSW Police Force or a student of policing—

(a) must treat NSW Police Force business as strictly secret, and

(b) must not, without proper authority, communicate or disclose in any way to any person outside the NSW Police Force any information—

(i) about NSW Police Force business or other official business connected with the member or student’s duties, or

(ii) that may come to the member’s or student’s knowledge in the performance of those duties.

(3) Nothing in this section operates to—

(a) impede the proper performance of operational police duties, or

(b) prevent the disclosure of information if it is reasonable to do so for the purposes of dealing with an emergency when life or property is at risk, or

(c) prevent the disclosure of information to a medical practitioner or psychologist for the purposes of providing health care to a member of the NSW Police Force or a student of policing, or

(d) prevent the lawful disclosure of information under the Act or this regulation.