NCJ Number
157102
Date Published
1995
Length
44 pages
Annotation
This report describes and compares the key features of the eight agencies currently exercising police oversight functions in Australia.
Abstract
These agencies include the Criminal Justice Commission in Queensland; Ombudsmen in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Tasmania, and at the Commonwealth (Federal) level; the Deputy Ombudsman in Victoria; the Parliamentary Commission for Administrative Investigations in Western Australia, and the Police Complaints Authority in South Australia. Each section of the report describes an agency's role and function, whether the agency has its own motion powers, the jurisdiction of the agency in relation to complaints made by police against other police, whether the agency uses seconded police, the investigative powers available to the agency, whether the agency can impose sanctions, whether informal resolution or conciliation is used, and the formal accountability of the oversight agency. 1 table