Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024
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Strategy statement of Office of Police Ombudsman | ||
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184. (1) The Police Ombudsman shall prepare and submit to the Minister a strategy statement in respect of the period of 3 years immediately following the year in which the strategy statement is so submitted— | ||
(a) as soon as practicable after the coming into operation of section 170 , and | ||
(b) thereafter not earlier than 6 months before, and not later than, the expiration of each subsequent period of 3 years following that coming into operation. | ||
(2) A strategy statement under this section shall— | ||
(a) include the key objectives, outputs and related strategies of the Police Ombudsman, including the use of resources in relation to the period to which the statement relates, and | ||
(b) except in the case of the strategy statement first prepared under this section, include a review and evaluation of the work of the Police Ombudsman in the performance of his or her functions in the previous 3 years. | ||
(3) In preparing a strategy statement under this section, the Police Ombudsman shall have regard to the need to ensure the most beneficial and efficient use of the resources of the Office of the Police Ombudsman. | ||
(4) The Police Ombudsman shall, before submitting a strategy statement to the Minister under subsection (1)— | ||
(a) publish, in such manner as he or she considers appropriate, a draft of the strategy statement, | ||
(b) allow persons 30 days from the date of publication under paragraph (a) within which to make representations in writing to the Police Ombudsman with regard to the draft of the strategy statement, and | ||
(c) having considered the representations (if any) made pursuant to paragraph (b), submit the strategy statement to the Minister with or without modifications. | ||
(5) The Minister shall cause a strategy statement received by him or her under subsection (1) to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after it is received. | ||
(6) The Police Ombudsman shall ensure that, as soon as practicable after a copy of a strategy statement is laid before each House of the Oireachtas, the statement is published on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Office of the Police Ombudsman or in such other manner as the Police Ombudsman considers appropriate. |