sec.7Particular matters within scope of prescribed responsibility

sec.7 Particular matters within scope of prescribed responsibility

For section 4 .8(2)(a) of the Act , the following are prescribed as particular matters within the scope of the prescribed responsibility— deciding priorities relating to the service; deciding the appropriate organisational structure of the service; the control of the human, financial or other resources of the service; the designation or redesignation of offices; deciding the number and deployment of officers or staff members; the selection of persons as officers or police recruits; the qualifications for offices in the service and the duties attaching to the offices; deciding levels of salaries, wages or allowances of members of the service; the promotion or demotion of officers or staff members; the training and development of members of the service; the discipline of members of the service; the dress or appearance of members of the service; the appraisal of performance of members of the service; the approval or administration of leave arrangements; the internal redeployment or retraining of officers or staff members; the termination of employment of members of the service; deciding the times within which members of the service are to perform their ordinary hours of work; developing ways to ensure all members of the service are treated justly, fairly and with compassion; deciding the number and location of police establishments or police stations; keeping proper records, including records about— the action taken by an officer or someone else in relation to a person suspected of having committed an offence; and the result of any proceeding against the person for the suspected offence; for a proceeding against a person for an offence with which the person was charged by an officer—taking part in a conference with the person’s lawyer about the conduct of the proceeding to narrow issues or help in the timely resolution of the proceeding; without limiting the action that may be taken by the commissioner as a result of the conference— deciding whether to amend, substitute or withdraw the charge; and deciding facts to be presented to the court for the charge; and if the prosecution has an election ( prosecution’s election ) about whether the proceeding for the offence is to be a summary proceeding—deciding whether to make the election; and Criminal Code , section 552A Drugs Misuse Act 1986 , section 118 Weapons Act 1990 , section 161 in deciding whether to make a prosecution’s election—having regard to any guidelines under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1984 , section 11 applying to the commissioner, or any other relevant consideration; and deciding the submissions to be made to a court by a prosecutor in relation to the sentencing of an offender on conviction of an offence. s 7 amd 2016 Act No. 43 s 25 ; 2022 Act No. 9 s 48

• (a) deciding priorities relating to the service;