Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024
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Power of Police Ombudsman to enter into agreements with law enforcement agencies or other relevant persons or bodies outside State | ||
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182. (1) The Police Ombudsman may, with the consent of the Government, enter into an agreement with a relevant person or body for the purpose of facilitating the performance by each party to the agreement of their respective functions. | ||
(2) An agreement under subsection (1) may provide for— | ||
(a) cooperation between the parties, | ||
(b) the exchange of information between the parties, or | ||
(c) such other matters as the Police Ombudsman thinks fit. | ||
(3) Subject to the Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018, the Police Ombudsman may, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of an agreement under subsection (1), provide information to, and receive information from, the other party to the agreement. | ||
(4) Where the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission entered into an agreement under section 81A of the Act of 2005 with a relevant person or body (within the meaning of that section) prior to the repeal of that section by section 5 and the agreement is in force immediately before that repeal, the agreement shall be deemed to have been entered into under this section to the extent that it is so in force. | ||
(5) In this section, “relevant person or body” means— | ||
(a) a police service or other law enforcement agency outside the State, or | ||
(b) a person or body outside the State in whom, or in which, functions are vested under the law of a place other than the State that are equivalent, or similar, to the functions of the Police Ombudsman under this or any other enactment. |