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The CME Guidebook

This guidebook is designed to provide best practice guidance to frontline officers and their managers and executive.

The guide introduces regional and unitary council officers and their managers to the general concepts of compliance, monitoring and enforcement (CME), and what is required to be a competent, credible and contemporary regulator.

Topics covered include:

  • enforcement and investigative concepts
  • the law of evidence
  • record keeping and file maintenance
  • scene attendance - practical
  • scene attendance - legal / investigative
  • exhibit handling
  • interviews and statements
  • enforcement options
  • the court process.

Read or download the guidebook