Independent Police Conduct Authority Act 1988

Functions of Authority

13: Duty of Commissioner to notify Authority of certain incidents involving death or serious bodily harm

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"The Police Commissioner must report to the Authority if a Police employee causes death or serious harm."

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If you are a Police employee and you cause death or serious bodily harm to someone while doing your job, the Commissioner must tell the Authority about it. The Commissioner has to give the Authority a written notice with details of what happened as soon as possible. You can find more information about the law that requires the Commissioner to do this in the Policing Act 2008 and the Independent Police Conduct Authority Amendment Act 2007.

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12: Functions of Authority, or

"The Authority's jobs include looking into complaints and unfair things the Police do."

14: Mode of complaint, or

13Duty of Commissioner to notify Authority of certain incidents involving death or serious bodily harm

Where a Police employee acting in the execution of his or her duty causes, or appears to have caused, death or serious bodily harm to any person, the Commissioner shall as soon as practicable give to the Authority a written notice setting out particulars of the incident in which the death or serious bodily harm was caused.

Notes

Section 13: amended, on 1 October 2008, by section 130(1) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).
Section 13: amended, on 29 November 2007, by section 14 of the Independent Police Conduct Authority Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 38).