Power of DPP to investigate gang-related activity

(1) If the Director of Public Prosecutions has any information suggesting the occurrence or threatened occurrence of any gang-related crime, or any conspiracy to commit such a crime, or any other information or material touching on the detection and prosecution of gang-related offences, he may appoint a Committee of Inquiry consisting of one or more (but not more than three) investigate gang- Crime Control and Criminal Justice[CAP. 102 25 members, and authorising such a Committee to inquire into any of the matters mentioned in sub-section (2). (2) A Committee appointed under this section may be authorised to investigate any of the following matters– (a) offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act; CAP. 105. (b) drug-related killings or other crimes of (c) offences under the Firearms Act; CAP. 143. (d) kidnappings and blackmail; (e) conspiracy to commit robberies. (3) A Committee appointed under this section shall hold its sitting in camera. (4) The evidence taken by a Committee appointed under this section and the record of its proceedings shall not be admissible in any Court of law save and except on a charge or perjury or contempt of Court arising out of any sworn testimony given by any person before the Committee, however, before any person gives evidence at any such inquiry, the Committee shall warn him that any false evidence given by him may lead to a charge of perjury against him. (5) No person giving evidence before a Committee of Inquiry appointed under this section shall be compelled to disclose any matter which would tend to incriminate him, unless he has been given a written guarantee of immunity from prosecution for any such thing said by him before the Committee. 26 (6) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, the Minister responsible for legal affairs may, after consultation with the Director of Public Prosecutions, make regulations governing the powers and procedures of a Committee of Inquiry appointed under this section, including, but not limited to, the summoning and swearing of witnesses, the penalties on witnesses for failing to attend at the inquiry or to give evidence or to produce documents, the payment and protection of witnesses, and all consequential and other matters necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section. (7) Regulations made under sub-section (6) shall be subject to negative resolution. PART 1B Injunctions: Gang-Related Violence