New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 148A

148A Commissioner or Ombudsman may decide to take no further action

(1) The Commissioner or the Ombudsman may, at any stage during an investigation of a complaint, decide to conclude the investigation by taking no further action with respect to the complaint.

(2) If the Commissioner or Ombudsman decides, at any stage during an investigation of a complaint referred to in section 140 (1), that the investigation should be concluded by taking no further action with respect to the complaint, each must notify the other of that decision.

(3) In deciding whether no further action should be taken with respect to a complaint, the Commissioner or Ombudsman may have regard to such matters as the Commissioner or Ombudsman thinks fit, including the matters referred to in section 141 (1).

(4) The Commissioner or Ombudsman must notify the complainant of a decision made by them under this section.

(5) The Commissioner may, if of the opinion that it is appropriate to do so, notify the police officer whose conduct is the subject of a complaint of a decision by the Commissioner or the Ombudsman under this section concerning the complaint.