South Australian Consolidated Regulations

POLICE REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 6

6—Responsibility when members are on duty together

        (1)         If two or more members of S.A. Police are engaged on duty together—

            (a)         the senior member is responsible for the performance of the duty; and

            (b)         the junior member, regardless of the part of S.A. Police in which the member is serving, must comply with the orders given by the senior member.

        (2)         For the purposes of subregulation (1), where a community constable is engaged on duty with a member of S.A. Police who is not a community constable, that other member is the senior and the community constable is the junior.

        (3)         Despite subregulation (1)—

            (a)         if the Commissioner by general or special order, or any officer by order, directs that a specified member of S.A. Police is responsible for the performance of a particular duty, the other members of S.A. Police engaged on the duty, whether senior to the specified member or not, must comply with orders given by the member for the performance of the duty; and

            (b)         if a member of S.A. Police is, in accordance with these regulations, transferred to a position of a lower rank without loss of rank or seniority, the member must comply with the orders of such other members, whether junior to the member or not, as the Commissioner may direct for the performance of the duties of the position.

        (4)         A direction by an officer under subregulation (3)(a) may only be given in relation to, and is only binding on, a member of S.A. Police who is under the officer's direction and superintendence.