Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE SERVICE ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 4.8

(1) The commissioner is responsible for the efficient and proper administration, management and functioning of the police service in accordance with law.

(2) Without limiting the extent of the prescribed responsibility, that responsibility includes responsibility for the following matters--

(a) determination of priorities;

(b) determination of the appropriate organisational structure of the department;

(c) designation and redesignation of offices;

(d) control of the human, financial and other resources of the department;

(e) selection of persons as officers and police recruits;

(f) determination of the number and deployment of officers and staff members;

(g) determination of the number and location of police establishments and police stations;

(h) determination of levels of salaries or wages and allowances of members of the service;

(i) qualifications for offices within the service and duties attaching to such offices;

(j) promotion or demotion of officers and staff members;

(k) training and development of members of the service;

(l) discipline of members of the service;

(m) dress and appearance of members of the service;

(n) appraisal of performance of members of the service;

(o) approval and administration of leave arrangements;

(p) internal redeployment and retraining of officers and staff members;

(q) termination of employment of members of the service;

(r) determination of times within which members of the service are to perform their ordinary hours of work;

(s) development of means to ensure all members of the service are treated justly, fairly and with compassion;

(t) maintenance of proper records, including, but not limited to, records about--

(i) the action taken by a police officer or someone else in relation to a person suspected of having committed an offence; and

(ii) the result of any proceeding against the person for the offence.

(3) The commissioner is authorised to do, or cause to be done, all such lawful acts and things as the commissioner considers to be necessary or convenient for the efficient and proper discharge of the prescribed responsibility.

(4) In discharging the prescribed responsibility, the commissioner--

(a) is to comply with all relevant awards or industrial agreements, determinations and rules made by an industrial authority; and

(b) subject to this Act, is to ensure compliance with the requirements of all Acts and laws binding on members of the police service, and directions of the commissioner; and

(c) is to have regard to section 4.6 and Ministerial directions duly given thereunder; and

(d) is to discharge the responsibility in relation to such matters as are prescribed for the time being.