Report on a Review of Police Powers in Queensland: Volumes 1-5

In 1989, in the Report of the Commission of Inquiry, Fitzgerald QC recommended a comprehensive review of police powers in Queensland. The first two volumes mark the first of series of reports on police powers to be produced by the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC). To deal thoroughly with such a topic in a single report would have meant considerable delay. The Commission therefore decided to release a series of reports for discussion in stages. 

• Report on a review of Police powers in Queensland: Volume I: An Overview (May 1993)
  The first volume is an introduction to the complex subject of police powers. It sets out the review process undertaken by the Commission as well as describing similar reviews by committees and commissions in other jurisdictions. The volume also discusses the nature of police powers and their relationship to police effectiveness and various concepts and definitions that frequently arise in discussing police powers.
   
• Appendices for Volume I: An Overview (May 1993) 
   
• Report on a review of Police powers in Queensland: Volume II: Entry, Search and Seizure (May 1993) 
  Released with Volume I is a second volume dealing with the police powers of entry, search and seizure prior to arrest. Volume II addresses matters relating to the stopping and searching of persons, the issue and execution of search warrants and many other more specific questions within this broad subject area. 
   
• Report on a review of Police powers in Queensland: Volume III: Arrest without warrant, demand name and address and move-on powers (November 1993) 
  In this volume, the Commission makes a number of recommendations relating to police powers of arrest without warrant and the power of the police to demand a person's name and address. Consideration is also given to whether the police should be given a general power to require people to 'move-on'. 
   
• Report on a review of Police powers in Queensland: Volume IV: Suspects' rights, police questioning, and pre-charge detention (May 1994) 
  In this volume, the Commission deals primarily with issues relating to suspects' rights and police questioning of suspects. The volume includes recommendations for the establishment of a scheme of post-arrest, pre-­charge detention, and for the provision of free legal advice to suspects in police stations. 
   
• Report on a review of Police powers in Queensland: Volume V: Electronic surveillance and other investigative procedures (October 1994) 
  This volume contains recommendations relating to the police use of listening devices and other forms of electronic surveillance, the taking of body samples, fingerprinting powers, rules and procedures governing eyewitness identification, police powers to preserve crime scenes, and strategies for promoting compliance with the Commission's proposed scheme of police powers.