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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1988

"THESE COMPLAINTS ARE AT PRESENT DEALT WITH BY INDEPENDENTLY MONITORED REDRESS SYSTEMS, NAMELY THE POLICE

POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE TOGETHER WITH THE COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE OFFICE (CAPO), AND THE ICAC COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE. THESE HAVE WORKED WELL AND THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR REPLACING OR DUPLICATING THEM.

"ANOTHER POINT IS THAT COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE AND THE ICAC ARE OF A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT NATURE TO MALADMINISTRATION COMPLAINTS, BEING FOR THE MOST PART JUSTICIABLE IN THE COURTS OR INVOLVING INTERNAL DISCIPLINE, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

IN OTHER RESPECTS, THE NEW BILL INCORPORATES THE FOLLOWING SIGNIFICANT AMENDMENTS AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF MINOR ONES;

OF

THE BILL INCLUDES A DEFINITION

THE

TERM "MALADMINISTRATION" TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A CLEARER CONCEPT OF THE JURSIDICTION OF THE C FOR AC:

A NEW CLAUSE HAS BEEN ADDED TO ENABLE COMPLAINTS TO B5 REFERRED ΤΟ THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF OMELCO WHEN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS DISSOLVED AND THERE ARE NO MEMBERS TO REFER COMPLAINTS TO THE C FOR AC;

ANOTHER NEW SUB-CLAUSE REQUIRES THE C FOR AC TO INFORM SECRETARY GENERAL OF OMELCO OF INVESTIGATION IN CASES WHERE THE MEMBER WHO REFERRED COMPLAINTS IS NO LONGER IN OFFICE;

THE

THE RESULT OF

HIS.

THE

HAS

A CLAUSE ON RESTRICTIONS ON INVESTIGATION OF COMPLAINTS BEEN AMENDED. THE EFFECT OF THE AMENDMENT IS TIIAT, WHILE, THE C FOR AC WILL HAVE A DISCRETION NOT ΤΟ INVESTIGATEĮ COMPLAINTS OF A SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR NATURE TO ONES ALREADY DEALT WITH, THE DISCRETION IS LIMITED TO CASES IN WHICH NO MALADMINISTRATION HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN FOUND;

A NEW SUB-CLAUSE HAS BEEN ADDED TO ALLOW THE C FOR AC то REPORT SERIOUS IRREGULARITIES TO THE GOVERNOR WHO WILL IN TURN TABLE SUCH REPORTS IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. THIS POWER IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE DIRECTOR OF AUDIT. THIS PROVISION 18 IN ADDITION TO THE POWER GIVEN TO THE C FOR AC TO REPORT HIS FINDINGS TO THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OR. WHERE HE DEEMS THIS INAPPROPRIATE, TO THE GOVERNOR, AND TO REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR ANY LACK OF CO-OPERATION/ACTION ON RECOMMENDATION BY HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS;

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