Page 841 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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To support the national approach to serious and organised crime, in 2009, the ACT Government presented the Government Report to the Legislative Assembly: Serious Organised Crime Groups and Activities to the Legislative Assembly. The report contained a number of recommendations aimed at strengthening the Territory’s ability to combat serious and organised crime.
In 2010 the ACT Legislative Assembly passed the Crimes (Serious Organised Crime) Amendment Act. The Act introduced the offences of affray, participation in a criminal group and recruiting people to participate in criminal activity into our criminal laws. The Act also extended our existing offences relating to the protection of people involved in legal proceedings.
Additionally, the ACT has now implemented cross border criminal investigation laws. The laws cover controlled operations, assumed identities, surveillance devices and the protection of witness identity.
ACT Policing (ACTP) is a portfolio of the Australian Federal Police, the Commonwealth’s principal law enforcement agency and the primary advisor to the Federal Government on policing issues. The AFP works closely with Commonwealth, State/Territory government and law enforcement agencies to implement the Commonwealth Organised Crime Strategic Framework. This framework seeks to unite the fight against serious and organised crime using law enforcement and regulatory means combined to disrupt criminal enterprises nationally and internationally.
The AFP works with private sector as well as Commonwealth, State/Territory partners to determine where crime prevention efforts might more effectively operate across the jurisdictions.
ACTP has the benefit of the AFP’s global profile and can draw on a broad law enforcement knowledge base to inform good practice in investigations and crime prevention.
The ACT Government is strongly committed and involved in addressing the supply and trade in illegal drugs. The ACT Government is actively engaged and involved in the legislative and policy response to the illicit drug trade at a national and international level. This involvement is supported by our legislative and policy response in the ACT as we endeavour to ensure that our law enforcement agencies are sufficiently resourced and supported to investigate and prosecute these crimes.
The failure to stop the use of drugs
The ACT’s criminal legislative response to illicit drug use is located in chapter 6 of the Criminal Code Act 2002, based on the Model Criminal Code, and the Drugs of Dependence Act 1989.
A key policy underpinning the ACT’s criminal law response to the use of illegal drugs is the ACT’s ‘Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Strategy 2010-2014’ (‘the ACT Strategy’). The strategy is a multifaceted approach applying evidence-informed practice that attempts to intervene to enhance health promotion and early intervention.
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