Local Enforcement System (Establishment as an Agency)

L.N. 150 of 2026

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACT

(CAP. 595)

Local Enforcement System (Establishment as an Agency)

(Amendment) Order, 2026

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 26 of the

Public Administration Act, the Prime Minister has made the following

order

The title of this order is the Local Enforcement System

(Establishment as an Agency) (Amendment) Order, 2026 and this

order shall be read and construed as one with the Local Enforcement

System (Establishment as an Agency) Order, hereinafter referred to as

the "principal order".

Article 1 of the principal order shall be substituted by the

following new regulation

1. The title of this order is the Local

"Title.

Enforcement Systems (Establishment as an Agency)

Order."

Immediately after paragraph (a) of article 3 of the principal

order there shall be added the following new paragraphs

"(aa) implementing the appropriate security

measures for the purpose of ensuring the safety of

community officers in the performance of their duties;

(ab) monitoring electronic systems as delegated

or prescribed in the Police Act and its subsidiary

legislation, and under the Electronic Monitoring Act;".

Immediately after article 6 of the principal order there shall

be added the following new article

Without prejudice to any of the functions

established in this order, the Agency shall implement

the appropriate security measures, which may include

inter alia, body-worn cameras or any other electronic

devices, that the Agency may consider necessary for

the purpose of ensuring the safety of the community

officers in the performance of their duties. The

recordings obtained from the said devices shall be

strictly used for the purpose of the prosecution of

criminal offences and criminal proceedings.".

5. Immediately after article 10 of the principal order there Adds new

articles to the

shall be added the following new articles

principal order.

" Collection of fees.

The Agency shall collect fees for services

carried out in accordance with this order and the fees

payable shall be those established by the Agency from

time to time.

(1)

The applicability of Regulation (EU)

2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the

Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural

persons with regard to the processing of personal data

and on the free movement of such data, and repealing

Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection

Regulation) and of the Data Protection Act including all

the regulations made thereunder and the fundamental

rights and freedoms of data subjects shall not be

prejudiced by this order.

(2) Where the processing of data is being

conducted by any of the devices referred to in article

6A, the Agency in its function as data controller, shall

implement visible notices, which may include inter

alia, badges worn on, or next to the device, to ensure

that the data subjects are informed of the processing

operation at the time of collection of the data. The

Agency shall provide the data subjects with all the

relevant information referred to in Article 13(1) and (2)

of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the

protection of natural persons with regard to the

processing of personal data and on the free movement

of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC

(General Data Protection Regulation).

(3) The Agency shall ensure that the recordings

processed by means of any of the devices referred to in

article 6A are processed strictly for the purposes

stipulated in the said article. Where the personal data is

no longer necessary for the purposes for which the

personal data is processed, the controller shall erase the

personal data without undue delay.

(4) Where the Agency retains the recordings

obtained in accordance with article 6A and such

recordings contain personal data of natural persons that

are not necessary for the purposes of the processing, the

controller shall seek to blur out or anonymise such

personal data, where possible and to the extent that such

measure does not degrade the quality or usefulness of

the data, and to the extent that such measure does not

create a reasonable likelihood of rendering impossible

or seriously impairing the achievement of the purposes

of the processing.

(5) The Agency shall, after taking into account

the status, the costs of implementation and the nature,

scope, context and purposes of the processing as well as

the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights

and freedoms of natural persons, implement the

appropriate technical and organisational measures to

ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk

presented by the processing activity.

(6) The Agency shall grant access to recordings

obtained by means of the devices referred to in article

6A solely to personnel duly authorised by the Chief

Executive Officer and in accordance with a strict role-

based access control mechanism.

(7) The Agency shall implement an internal

policy to instruct the community officers on the

appropriate use of the devices referred to in article 6A

in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April

2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to

the processing of personal data and on the free

movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/

EC (General Data Protection Regulation), specifying

when and how these devices shall be used by

community officers in the performance of their duties.

(8) The data protection officer designated by the

Agency shall be involved and consulted in a timely

manner on all issues in relation to the protection of

personal data processed by the Agency.".

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