Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

The inspection entity for a law enforcement agency must, from time to time, inspect the records of the law enforcement agency to decide the extent of compliance with this chapter by the agency and law enforcement officers of the agency.

For the purpose of an inspection, the inspection entity—

after notifying the chief executive officer of the agency, may enter at any reasonable time premises occupied by the agency; and

is entitled to have full and free access at all reasonable times to all records of the agency that are relevant to the inspection; and

may require a member of staff of the agency to give the inspection entity any information that the inspection entity considers necessary, being information that is in the member’s possession, or to which the member has access, and that is relevant to the inspection.

The chief executive officer must ensure that members of staff of the agency give the inspection entity any help the inspection entity reasonably requires to enable the inspection entity to perform functions under this section.

For applying this section to the parliamentary commissioner as inspection entity for the CCC, this section does not limit the parliamentary commissioner’s powers under the Crime and Corruption Act 2001, chapter 6, part 4, division 4.