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Community groups

Community engagement strategy

Complainants and information providers

Legal representatives

Magistrates or Judicial Officers

Media representatives

NSW Police Officers

Public officials

Employees

Community groups

The Commission fosters two-way engagement with stakeholders and identified groups in the community. We listen to communities so we can learn information which may assist us in our oversight, investigation and prevention work. Our community engagement officers establish and maintain relationships with hard to reach communities.

Part of our job is to make sure that people know about the work that we do. Read more about our outreach work in our Community Engagement Strategy.

How to make an engagement request
We consider engagement requests from community groups on a case-by-case basis when they are relevant to our work in exposing, oversighting, investigating and preventing police corruption, misconduct and maladministration in NSW.

All engagement requests must be accompanied by an email from the organisation requesting the engagement.

The engagement request email should include:

• what the organisation's purpose is

• the names and titles of key people in the organisation

• where the organisation is located

• purpose of the engagement

• the organisation's key areas of interest within LECC. 

You can contact our Community Engagement officer at engage@lecc.nsw.gov.au.

Complainants and information providers

The LECC encourages members of the public and public officials to report suspected serious misconduct or serious maladministration involving the NSW Police Force or NSW Crime Commission.

Learn how to make a complaint by visiting our Make a Complaint page.

Legal representatives

Legal representatives can make referrals to LECC by completing the Legal Representative Complaint Form and emailing it to legalrep.referrals@lecc.nsw.gov.au

Magistrates and Judicial Officers

Magistrates and Judicial Officers can make referrals to LECC by completing the Courts Complaint Form and emailing it to court.referrals@lecc.nsw.gov.au

Media representatives

We welcome media enquiries, and journalists may report on complaints that are made to the LECC.

We publicise our work when it is in the public interest to do so. However, disclosing information about a current complaint or investigation may jeopardise the investigation, a potential prosecution or risk prejudicing a person's reputation and right to a fair trial.

For this reason, we won’t comment on whether we have received a complaint or are investigating a matter unless a report is made public or it’s in the public interest to do so.

We may decide not to comment on a matter we’ve publicly commented on before if:

• releasing information may jeopardise the investigation
• the information may prejudice a person's right to a fair trial
• a law or a court order prevents us from doing so. 

We report on the outcomes of investigations through public reports and private reports.

Public reports

We will release a public report if we hold a public examination. We may also release a public report of a private examination or about the systemic work we do.

These reports are tabled before both Houses of Parliament with a recommendation it be made public.  Once we have been given approval to make a report public, we will post it on our website.  We usually issue a media release for any public report.

Private reports

If we decide a report should be private we’ll only share it with the Minister of Police, the person who made the complaint and the Commissioner of Police.

We won’t discuss the contents of a private report with the media.

Check out our Media Hub for media releases, videos and newsletters.

Check out our Annual Reports and other publications in the Publications Hub.

You can contact us on 0425 317 535 or at media@lecc.nsw.gov.au to request a comment or to get more information.

NSW Police Officers

If you are a serving officer, you can fulfil your obligation to report police misconduct by submitting a complaint to us.

The NSW Police is required to notify the Commission of any complaint that is notifiable.

The Section 14 Guidelines fully outline these complaint types, which can be summarised as:

• criminal offences by NSW Police officers
• failure to investigate domestic violence, sexual offences or indictable crimes
• corruption
• associating with criminals or other conflicts
• conduct that may end in the employee being sacked
• misuse of LEPRA powers (ie search, arrest and detention)
• falsifying official records
• unapproved use or storage of firearms, tasers, OC sprays, batons or handcuffs
• not complying with policies, declarable associations; conflicts of interest; and secondary employment
• complaints against the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner
• conduct which may result in a demolition
• conduct that may results in a financial penalty
• misconduct relating to a critical incident
• improper release of police information
• failure to report misconduct by another officer
• payback for a previous complaint
• adverse comments by a court about police
• failure to report adverse comments by a court about police conduct
• civil litigations that allege serious misconduct by police
• serious maladministration. 

Learn how to make a complaint by visiting our Make a Complaint page.

Public officials

If you are a NSW public official and you have information about members of the NSW Police or the NSW Crime Commission engaging in corrupt conduct, maladministration or serious waste of public money, you can make a public interest disclosure to the LECC under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2022 (NSW) (the PID Act).

The PID Act gives legal protection to people who work in the NSW public sector when they report serious wrongdoing. It means they can make a report without fear of being sued for defamation or other action as payback for making the report. The Act provides the framework for making public interest disclosures (PIDs) and the protections for those making disclosures. 

Who is a NSW Public Official?

• a person employed in or by a NSW agency or otherwise in the service of an agency
• a person having public official functions or acting in a public official capacity whose conduct or activities an integrity agency is authorised by another Act or law to investigate
• an individual in the service of the NSW Crown
• a statutory officer
• a person providing services or exercising functions on behalf of an agency, including a contractor, subcontractor or volunteer
• an employee, partner or officer of an entity that provides services, under contract, subcontract or other arrangement, on behalf of an agency or exercises functions of an agency, and are involved in providing those services or exercising those functions
• a judicial officer
• a person employed under the Members of Parliament Staff Act 2013.

Who is not a NSW Public Official? 

• a person who has received services from an agency and wants to make a complaint about those services
• people, such as contractors, who provide services to an agency. For example, employees of a company that sold computer software to an agency.

What is a Public Interest Disclosure (PID)?

See Glossary.

There are three types in the PID Act. These are:

1. Voluntary PID: Where a report has been made by the public official because they decided, of their own accord, to come forward and disclose what they know.
2. Mandatory PID: Where the public official has made a report about serious wrongdoing because they have a legal obligation to make that report, or because making that report is an ordinary aspect of their role or function in an agency.
3. Witness PID: Where a person discloses information during an investigation of serious wrongdoing following a request or requirement of the investigator or agency.

This LECC’s PID policy sets out:

• how the LECC will support and protect you if you come forward with a report of serious wrongdoing

• how we will deal with the report and our other responsibilities under the PID Act

• who to contact if you want to make a report

• how to make a report

• the protections which are available to you under the PID Act.

As a public official, you can make a public interest disclosure to LECC.

Learn how to make a complaint by visiting our Make a Complaint page.

Employees

Recruitment activity at the LECC is guided by the principles of diversity and inclusion to have equal employment opportunities, and selection based on merit.

The purpose of our competitive merit-based selection process is to ensure that the most suitable person is hired for the role and that the process is fair and transparent, therefore:

• All eligible members of the community have a fair chance to gain a job
• Selection is based only on a person’s ability to perform the work. 

All current job opportunities are listed on the NSW Government Careers website I Work for NSW.

Current or former NSW Police Force or Crime Commission officers are ineligible to apply for roles in the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission. 

General information about our recruitment and selection process can be obtained by accessing the documents below:

Guide for candidates

It is important to note that all candidates will be required to undergo stringent security vetting to further determine their suitability for employment with the LECC. This background check is in addition to a police check.

Candidates will be asked to complete security clearance forms which covers a risk assessment of the following areas:

• Personal and employment background
• Relevant criminal checks
• Financial position, specifically assets and debts, interests and partnerships in companies, shareholdings etc.
• Family background
• Any associations or personal relations which may conflict with employment with the LECC, specifically with current or former members of NSW Police.

All information received will be treated in the strictest confidence and used for security vetting purposes only. Documentation provided by candidates and any other documents relating to security assessment will be held on the individual’s Personal Security File and accessed only by those authorised to perform security clearances.