Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

POLICE ADMINISTRATION ACT - SECT 84D

The Commissioner or prescribed member, on receiving a report prepared under section 84C(1)(b), may take no further action on the matter or (in the case of a prescribed member, to the extent that the Regulations so permit):

(a) counsel and caution the member;

(b) cause the member to be formally cautioned in writing;

(c) take no further action on the basis that the member be of good behaviour for a period, not exceeding 12 months, fixed by the Commissioner or prescribed member;

(d) impose on the member a fine not exceeding $2,000;

(e) reduce the member to a rank below the rank which the member held at the date of the hearing;

(f) reduce the rate of salary of the member to a rate of salary within the limits of the salary fixed for the rank held by the member;

(g) transfer the member:

(i) from the position held by the member in the Police Force to another position in the Police Force; and/or

(ii) from the locality in the Territory where the member is stationed to another locality in the Territory;

(h) suspend the member from the Police Force, for a period not exceeding 3 months, subject to such conditions as the Commissioner specifies;

(j) order the member to pay, by way of costs, compensation or restitution, such amount as the Commissioner or prescribed member considers appropriate to the matter; or

(k) dismiss the member from the Police Force,

or do any one or more of those things, to have effect either concurrently or sequentially.