New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 60

60 Assault and other actions against police officers

(1) A person who assaults, throws a missile at, stalks, harasses or intimidates a police officer while in the execution of the officer’s duty, although no actual bodily harm is occasioned to the officer, is liable to imprisonment for 5 years.

(1A) A person who, during a public disorder, assaults, throws a missile at, stalks, harasses or intimidates a police officer while in the execution of the officer’s duty, although no actual bodily harm is occasioned to the officer, is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.

(2) A person who assaults a police officer while in the execution of the officer’s duty, and by the assault occasions actual bodily harm, is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.

(2A) A person who, during a public disorder, assaults a police officer while in the execution of the officer’s duty, and by the assault occasions actual bodily harm, is liable to imprisonment for 9 years.

(3) A person who recklessly by any means:

(a) wounds a police officer, or

(b) inflicts grievous bodily harm on a police officer,

while in the execution of the officer’s duty is liable to imprisonment for 12 years.

(3A) A person who, recklessly by any means, and during a public disorder:

(a) wounds a police officer, or

(b) inflicts grievous bodily harm on a police officer,

while in the execution of the officer’s duty is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.

(4) For the purposes of this section, an action is taken to be carried out in relation to a police officer while in the execution of the officer’s duty, even though the police officer is not on duty at the time, if it is carried out:

(a) as a consequence of, or in retaliation for, actions undertaken by that police officer in the execution of the officer’s duty, or

(b) because the officer is a police officer.