Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC)

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) is an independent NSW statutory body that detects, investigates and exposes serious misconduct by NSW police officers and Crime Commission officers. PretaGov has been LECC's CMS and hosting partner since the Commission was established.

Background

LECC's public website publishes investigation reports, oversight information, and pathways for the public to make complaints. The publications archive is published with faceted filtering — by date, document type, investigation topic — so a journalist or lawyer arriving at the site can narrow down to the specific report or finding they're looking for without trawling through chronological listings.

PretaGov has hosted, maintained and supported the LECC platform under annual SLAs since the Commission's early years — through Plone version cycles, brand changes, and shifts in the Commission's investigation and reporting practices.

The 2022 Plone 6 upgrade

The most substantive single piece of work in the LECC partnership was the 2022 platform upgrade. The original site had been running on Plone 5 with a custom theme since LECC was established. By 2022 the platform was approaching end-of-life and the visual design had drifted from current NSW Government brand standards for independent commissions.

We upgraded LECC from Plone 5 to Plone 6 with Volto — the modern React frontend — and rebuilt the visual layer on the NSW Government Customer Service design system, with customisations appropriate to LECC's status as an independent commission (replacement logo, customisable colour scheme, optional masthead control).

The drag-and-drop Volto editor replaced LECC's previous content-editing experience entirely. The communications team now builds landing pages, news items and publications using composable blocks rather than custom templates. The legacy contact form, which had used a custom XML data attachment, was migrated to Volto's form builder.

We also built a custom Volto component to embed externally-hosted Power BI dashboards directly into pages — used for the Commission's oversight data publication.

Accessibility extensions

Beyond the upgrade, we wired Google Translate auto-translation into the page chrome so the Commission's investigation reports and oversight publications are reachable to NSW's many non-English-speaking communities — a meaningful accessibility extension for a regulator whose remit covers complaints from people across the full demographic of the state.

Ongoing partnership

LECC's platform is now on a supported version of Plone with a clear upgrade path. The communications team is largely independent for day-to-day publishing. The Commission has continued under annual support contracts since the 2022 upgrade, with incremental enhancements driven by the Commission's evolving oversight remit.