New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 5

5 Witness protection program

(1) The Commissioner of Police, through the establishment and maintenance of a witness protection program, is to take such action as the Commissioner thinks necessary and reasonable to protect the safety and welfare of a witness.

(2) That action may include the following:

(a) making arrangements necessary:

(i) to allow the witness to establish a new identity, or

(ii) otherwise to protect the witness,

(b) relocating the witness,

(c) providing accommodation for the witness,

(d) providing transport for the property of the witness,

(e) providing reasonable financial assistance to the witness,

(e1) providing to the witness services in the nature of counselling (such as psychological counselling and drug and alcohol counselling) and vocational training services,

(g) doing any other things that the Commissioner of Police considers necessary to ensure the safety of the witness.

(3) That action may also include doing things as a result of functions conferred on the Commissioner of Police under a complementary witness protection law.