Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024
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Standards of integrity, codes of ethics for Police Ombudsman, Deputy Police Ombudsman, officers of the Police Ombudsman, advisers or consultants, etc. | ||
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186. (1) In performing functions under this Act— | ||
(a) the Police Ombudsman, | ||
(b) the Deputy Police Ombudsman, | ||
(c) the chief executive officer, | ||
(d) an officer of the Police Ombudsman, | ||
(e) a person engaged by the Police Ombudsman under section 180 as a consultant or adviser, | ||
(f) a person engaged by the Police Ombudsman under section 181 , or | ||
(g) subject to subsection (2), an employee or contractor of a person referred to in paragraph (e), | ||
shall maintain proper standards of integrity, conduct and concern for the public interest. | ||
(2) Subsection (1) applies to an employee or contractor of a person referred to in paragraph (e) of that subsection in respect only of the duties of employment or the contract, as the case may be, relating to the purposes for which the Police Ombudsman has engaged that person. | ||
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Police Ombudsman shall issue a code of ethics for the guidance of persons to whom that subsection applies. | ||
(4) A code of ethics issued under subsection (3) shall set out the standards of integrity and conduct to be maintained by the persons to whom it applies in performing their functions under this Act. | ||
(5) A person to whom such a code of ethics issued under subsection (3) applies shall act in accordance with the code in performing his or her functions under this Act. | ||
(6) Where a person is an employee of a person engaged by the Police Ombudsman under section 180 as an adviser or consultant, his or her terms and conditions shall be deemed to include the requirements that apply to the employer under subsection (5). | ||
(7) Subject to subsection (8), the Police Ombudsman shall, as soon as practicable after issuing a code of ethics under subsection (3), make the code available to the persons to whom subsection (1) applies. | ||
(8) The Police Ombudsman shall provide a copy of a code of ethics issued under subsection (3) to a person engaged by him or her as a consultant or adviser under section 180 and the person so engaged shall make that copy available to his or her employees or contractors to whom subsection (1)(g) applies. | ||
(9) A document purporting to be a code of ethics issued under this section is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be taken to be such code and is admissible as such in any proceedings before a court or other tribunal. | ||
(10) Any provision of a code of ethics issued under subsection (3) that appears to a court or other tribunal to be relevant to a question in the proceedings before the court or other tribunal, as the case may be, may be taken into account by it in determining the question. |