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Law enforcement in Australia is served by police, sheriffs and bailiffs under the control of state, territory and the Federal governments. A number of state, territory and federal agencies also administer a wide variety of legislation related to white-collar crime. Look up Sheriff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Bailiff (from Late Latin bajulivus, adjectival form of bajulus) is a governor or custodian (cf. ...
The states and territories of Australia make up the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ...
Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime has been defined by Edwin Sutherland ...as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. ...
The police is responsible for the criminal law. The sheriff and bailiffs in each state and territory are responsible for the enforcement of the judgments of the courts exercising civil law (common law) jurisdictions. In Australia, there are two levels of police forces, the state police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The AFP is only 25 years old whilst State Police Forces were established in the 1800s. Criminal law (also known as penal law) is the body of statutory and common law that deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offenses. ...
In the common law, civil law refers to the area of law governing relations between private individuals. ...
State police are a type of sub-national territorial police force, particularly in the United States. ...
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the federal police agency of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
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Commonwealth law enforcement agencies The Australian Federal Police operates at a Federal level and concerns itself with Federal laws including corporate law, drug smuggling, money laundering, human trafficking, e-crime and anti-terrorism. Australian Federal Police Officers also serve on international peacekeeping and policing operations in such places as Cyprus, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Trafficking in human beings (or human trafficking) involves the movement of people (mostly women and children) against their will by means of force for the purpose of sexual or labor exploitation. ...
Kataar ma bar farar sharererer poo doo kaka po po Computer crime, cybercrime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime generally refers to criminal activity where a computer or network is the tool, target, or place of a crime. ...
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The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor, is an island nation in Southeast Asia, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, a political exclave of East Timor situated on the western side of...
Other federal agencies are also responsible for specific areas of law enforcement. These include:
The ACCC Logo The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is an independent Australian commonwealth government authority established in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission (TPC) and the Prices Surveillance Authority, to protect consumer rights, business rights and obligations, perform industry regulation and price monitoring and...
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) was established when the Australian Crime Commission Act came into effect on 1 January 2003. ...
The Australian Customs Service (ACS) is responsible for overseeing international movement of trade goods and people into Australia, for the collection of customs and excises, for undertaking border management activities, and for detecting drugs coming into the country. ...
AQIS logo The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) is the Australian government agency responsible for enforcing Australian quarantine laws. ...
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent Australian government body that acts as Australias corporate regulator. ...
National common policing services The Australasian Police Professional Standards Council (APPSC) is an organisation that serves all Police Jurisdictions around Australia.
National policing initiatives The Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) is a national policing initiaitve to combat high tech crimes, including crimes committed with or against computers or communication systems (computer crime) like malicious hacking, and traditional crimes which are largely facilitated by technology like child pornography and money laundering. Infact the ACT Government permits child pornography of people with 20,000 images of acts against children with No criminal convictions and 1 year bond; But sending email to John Stahnope reporting DVO's were issued without compliance with commonwealth child protection or anti fraud laws by using over 1000 emails gets criminal conviction and 3 years bond. The Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) is an Australia wide policing intitiative to coordinate the efforts of Australian law enforcement in combating serious crime involving complex technology. ...
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Kataar ma bar farar sharererer poo doo kaka po po Computer crime, cybercrime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime generally refers to criminal activity where a computer or network is the tool, target, or place of a crime. ...
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Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ...
Crime Stoppers programs run in each state and nationally. Crime Stoppers collects information about crime and passes it on to the police ensuring that the community can participate in crime fighting. Crime Stoppers is a community policing initiative that commenced operation in the Australian state of Victoria in 1987, it has been operating Australia wide since 1998. ...
CrimTrac is an intergovernmental policing agency that supports Australian policing through the provision of forensic and other information and investigative tools between State and Federal Police Departments. The National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) is national fingerprint database, administered by CrimTrac. The CrimTrac Agency was established on 1 July 2000, to assist Australian police services to take advantage of recent forensic science, information technology and communications developments and enable information exchange across state and federal jurisdictions. ...
Forensics or forensic science is the application of science to questions which are of interest to the legal system. ...
The National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) was established in Australia in 1986, an upgraded system commenced operations in April 2001 and provides technological improvements in fingerprint matching for use by law enforcement agencies. ...
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State Each State as well as the Northern Territory is responsible for maintaining its own police force which is responsible for policing at the state and local level. This involves general law and order, traffic policing, major crime, anti-terrorism branches, water police, search and rescue and in some states transit police. Local policing in the Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory and Australia's external territories is contracted to the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2000x1500, 907 KB) Summary An Australian police vehicle. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2000x1500, 907 KB) Summary An Australian police vehicle. ...
The South Australia Police (SAPOL) is the police force of the Australian state of South Australia. ...
Australia, having a federal system of government, is divided into states and territories. ...
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Capital Canberra Government Constitutional monarchy Administrator none Chief Minister Jon Stanhope (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 2 - Senate seats 2 Gross Territorial Product (2006) - Product ($m) $19,167 (6th) - Product per capita $57,303/person (1st) Population (End of November 2006) - Population 333,667 (7th) - Density 137. ...
The Jervis Bay Territory is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the federal police agency of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
In some states, local governments employ by-laws officers or rangers to enforce local by-laws or ordinances relating to such matters as parking, dog ownership, retailing, littering or water usage. These local government officers are not considered to be police forces as they generally only have the power to issue fines and do not have the same powers as state police. They may rely upon appointment as a Special Constable or legislated powers for their authority. Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state or province. ...
A Bylaw (sometimes also seen as By-Law or ByLaw) is a rule governing the internal management of an organization, such as a business corporation. ...
Ordinance can mean: A law made by a non-sovereign body such as a city council or a colony. ...
The Special Constabulary is the auxiliary wing of the British police. ...
Policing agencies State police also perform certain functions on behalf of the Australian Government such as the registration of aliens, and the enforcement of various Commonwealth Acts and Regulations in conjunction with the Australian Federal Police and other Commonwealth officers.
While the Australian Capital Territory Police is under the jurisdiction of the Australian Federal Police, the following policing agencies are regulated by their respective State Government: Australian Capital Territory Police or ACT Police provides community policing services for the Australian Capital Territory in Canberra, Australias capital city. ...
The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously New South Wales Police Service & New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency in the State of New South Wales, Australia. ...
The Northern Territory Police have legal jurisdication over the Northern Territory of Australia. ...
The Queensland Police Service is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. ...
The South Australia Police (SAPOL) is the police force of the Australian state of South Australia. ...
The Tasmania Police service was established in 1899 by unification of smaller regional forces. ...
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Sheriffs In recent years, the states and territories have been returning responsibility for the recovering of court ordered fines to their sheriffs responsibility. In practice, the police often carry out the functions of sheriffs and bailiffs in the country and more sparsely populated areas of Australia.
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See also This is a list of operational and former Australian prisons. ...
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 | Australia The Australian Customs Service (ACS) is responsible for overseeing international movement of trade goods and people into Australia, for the collection of customs and excises, for undertaking border management activities, and for detecting drugs coming into the country. ...
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the federal police agency of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
AQIS logo The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) is the Australian government agency responsible for enforcing Australian quarantine laws. ...
Australian Capital Territory Police or ACT Police provides community policing services for the Australian Capital Territory in Canberra, Australias capital city. ...
The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously New South Wales Police Service & New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency in the State of New South Wales, Australia. ...
The Northern Territory Police have legal jurisdication over the Northern Territory of Australia. ...
The Queensland Police Service is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. ...
The South Australia Police (SAPOL) is the police force of the Australian state of South Australia. ...
The Tasmania Police service was established in 1899 by unification of smaller regional forces. ...
To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Western Australia Police logo. ...
The ACCC Logo The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is an independent Australian commonwealth government authority established in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission (TPC) and the Prices Surveillance Authority, to protect consumer rights, business rights and obligations, perform industry regulation and price monitoring and...
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) was established when the Australian Crime Commission Act came into effect on 1 January 2003. ...
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent Australian government body that acts as Australias corporate regulator. ...
The Corruption and Crime Commission is a permanent investigative commission established by the Government of Western Australia in 2003, largely as a result of the findings of a royal commission into the states police service. ...
The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) is an independent[1] Queensland Government entity created to combat and reduce the incidence of major crime and to continuously improve the integrity of, and to reduce the incidence of misconduct in, the Queensland public sector[2]. The CMC also has a witness protection...
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is an independent agency of the Government of New South Wales with responsibility for investigating corrupt practices by state and local officials in the state of New South Wales. ...
The New South Wales Crime Commission is a statutory corporation which is established pursuant to the New South Wales Crime Commission Act 1985. ...
The Office of Police Integrity is an independent authority designed to oversee the work of the Victoria Police in Victoria, Australia. ...
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