New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 129

129 Registration of complaints

(1) Information about all complaints received by members of the NSW Police Force, by the Police Integrity Commission or by the Ombudsman must be registered in the complaints information system.

(2) Despite subsection (1), the Police Integrity Commission may direct that information about a complaint or a specified class of complaints:

(a) is not to be entered in the complaints information system, or

(b) is to be removed from the complaints information system, or

(c) is to be entered or re-entered in the complaints information system.

(2A) Information about a complaint (or part of a complaint) received by the Police Integrity Commission or the Ombudsman that is not referred to the Commissioner is not required to be registered in the complaints information system, unless the Police Integrity Commission or Ombudsman directs that a complaint received by them be entered in the system.

(3) The PIC Commissioner, and such officers of the Police Integrity Commission as are authorised in that regard by the PIC Commissioner, are to have unrestricted access to all information in the complaints information system.

(4) The PIC Commissioner may place a caveat on particular information registered in the complaints information system and, in that event, access to that information by other agencies and other persons is to be restricted in accordance with the terms of the caveat.

(5) The Ombudsman, and such officers of the Ombudsman as are authorised in that regard by the Ombudsman, are to have unrestricted access to all information in the complaints information system, subject to the terms of any caveat under this section.

(6) The Ombudsman may place a caveat on particular information registered in the complaints information system and, in that event, access to that information by other agencies and other persons, other than:

(a) the PIC Commissioner, and

(b) such officers of the Police Integrity Commission as are authorised in that regard by the PIC Commissioner,

is to be restricted in accordance with the terms of the caveat.