POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 743
Monitor’s annual report
743 Monitor’s annual report
(1) As soon as practicable after the end of
each financial year, but within 4 months after the end of the financial year,
the public interest monitor must prepare and give to the Minister a written
report on the use of covert search warrants under this Act.
Note—
Under
section 363, the monitor, as inspection entity for the police service under
chapter 13 , is also required to prepare reports on matters relating to
surveillance device warrants and give the Minister a copy of the report.
(a) the number of initial
orders made during the year;
(b) the number of final orders made during the
year;
(c) whether a person was taken into custody under each of those orders
and, if so, how long the person was detained for;
(d) particulars of any
complaints about the detention of a person under a preventative detention
order made or referred during the year to the ombudsman or the CCC;
(e) the
number of prohibited contact orders made during the year;
(f) the use of
preventative detention orders and prohibited contact orders generally.
(3)
Also, a report relating to a year must include the following matters under the
Criminal Code of the Commonwealth, division 104 , in relation to matters
involving the public interest monitor—
(a) the number of control orders
confirmed, declared void, revoked or varied during the year;
(b) the use of
control orders generally.
(3A) Also, a report relating to a year must include
the following matters relating to official warnings for consorting—
(a) the
number of official warnings for consorting given during the year;
(b) the
number of times the giving of an official warning for consorting led to a
person committing an offence against section 790or 791;
(c) the extent of
compliance by the police service with chapter 2 , part 6A ;
(d) the use of
official warnings for consorting generally.
(3B) Also, a report relating to a
year must include the following matters relating to public safety orders made
by commissioned officers under the Peace and Good Behaviour Act 1982—
(a)
the number of public safety orders made by commissioned officers during the
year;
(3C) The public interest monitor must, within
the period mentioned in subsection (1) , give to the Minister responsible for
administering the Peace and Good Behaviour Act 1982and the Minister
responsible for administering the Criminal Code , a copy of any part of a
report relating to a year that relates to a matter mentioned in subsection
(3A) or (3B) .
(4) The Minister must table a copy of the report in the
Legislative Assembly within 14 sitting days after receiving the report.
(5)
The annual report must not contain information that—
(a) discloses or may
lead to the disclosure of the identity of any person who has been, is being,
or is to be, investigated; or
(b) indicates a particular investigation has
been, is being, or is to be conducted.
(6) The public interest monitor’s
report may form part of another annual report the monitor is required to
prepare under another Act.
