Review of Legislative Schemes
- Report length
- 62 pages
Summary
The report's own summary: INTRODUCTION, page 5
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South Australia’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption reviewed police complaints legislation and public administration complaint pathways at the Attorney-General’s request.
The review considered complaint oversight, assessment, investigation and whether intake processes could be consolidated.
The Commissioner concluded that overlapping responsibilities and slow resolution made the existing integrity system cumbersome.
The Commissioner made 29 recommendations, including replacing police complaints legislation, abolishing the Police Ombudsman and giving the Office for Public Integrity oversight of police complaint handling.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
Complaints and reports about public administration are taking too long to resolve.
- Recommendation
New police complaints legislation should invest the role of overseeing the management of complaints and reports about police in the OPI.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
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Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
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- Office for Public Integrity: publishes only its annual reports (excluded); no OPI report or statement records.
- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
- Government and agency responses are recorded only where the Commission's page links them or the report reproduces them; implementation status is not published by the Commission as structured data.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not read (no OCR); their recommendations stay not_extracted.
- Recommendations are extracted only from numbered 'Recommendation N' lists; reports that set out recommendations in prose, tables or unnumbered lists keep recommendations_status not_extracted.
- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.