Annual Report - COMPLETE - Australian Crime Commission

ACC Board
The ACC Board is responsible for establishing national criminal intelligence
priorities (NCIP), setting ACC priorities and strategic direction, authorising access
to the coercive powers, authorising special intelligence operations and special
investigations, determining intelligence operations and investigations, disseminating
strategic criminal intelligence assessments, and reporting to the IGC on the ACC’s
performance.
The ACC Board has the following members:
• Commissioner of the AFP as Chair of the ACC Board;
• Secretary of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department;
• CEO of ACS;
• Chairperson of ASIC;
• Director-General of Security;
• Commissioners of all state and territory police forces;
• Chief Police Officer of the ACT; and
• CEO of the ACC (as a non-voting member of the ACC Board).
The ACC Act provides that the ACC Board must meet at least twice yearly. In
2003–04, the ACC Board met on three occasions - 22 September and 4 December
2003, and 28 April 2004. A further meeting scheduled for June 2004 was postponed
until September. These followed three earlier meetings in the six months following
the establishment of the ACC on 1 January 2003. The early meetings focused on
setting the strategic direction for the ACC required by the ACC Act. Important decisions
included the endorsement of the ACC Board’s Charter of Governance, the approval
of processes for ACC authorisations and the determination of the NCIPs. The ACC
Board also made a number of authorisations and Determinations which provided
the legislative basis for the important work of the ACC. Where these authorisations
included provision for the use of the ACC’s coercive powers, the members of the
IGC-ACC were advised in accordance with the provisions of S9 of the Act.
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