Police Service Administration Regulation 2016

deciding priorities relating to the service;

deciding the appropriate organisational structure of the service;

the control of the human, financial or other resources of the service;

the designation or redesignation of offices;

deciding the number and deployment of officers or staff members;

the selection of persons as officers or police recruits;

the qualifications for offices in the service and the duties attaching to the offices;

deciding levels of salaries, wages or allowances of members of the service;

the promotion or demotion of officers or staff members;

the training and development of members of the service;

the discipline of members of the service;

the dress or appearance of members of the service;

the appraisal of performance of members of the service;

the approval or administration of leave arrangements;

the internal redeployment or retraining of officers or staff members;

the termination of employment of members of the service;

deciding the times within which members of the service are to perform their ordinary hours of work;

developing ways to ensure all members of the service are treated justly, fairly and with compassion;

deciding the number and location of police establishments or police stations;

keeping proper records, including records about—

the action taken by an officer or someone else in relation to a person suspected of having committed an offence; and

the result of any proceeding against the person for the suspected offence;

for a proceeding against a person for an offence with which the person was charged by an officer—taking part in a conference with the person’s lawyer about the conduct of the proceeding to narrow issues or help in the timely resolution of the proceeding;

without limiting the action that may be taken by the commissioner as a result of the conference—

deciding whether to amend, substitute or withdraw the charge; and

deciding facts to be presented to the court for the charge; and

if the prosecution has an election (prosecution’s election) about whether the proceeding for the offence is to be a summary proceeding—deciding whether to make the election; and

in deciding whether to make a prosecution’s election—having regard to any guidelines under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1984, section 11 applying to the commissioner, or any other relevant consideration; and

deciding the submissions to be made to a court by a prosecutor in relation to the sentencing of an offender on conviction of an offence.