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Annual Report - COMPLETE - Australian Crime Commission

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Special intelligence operation or special investigation<br />

Special intelligence operations and investigations are intelligence operations and<br />

investigations which the ACC Board has determined can use the ACC’s special<br />

powers.<br />

Special powers<br />

The ACC has coercive powers similar to those of a Royal <strong>Commission</strong>, which may<br />

be exercised only by ACC Examiners for special intelligence operations or special<br />

investigations. The special powers allow the ACC to summons a person to give<br />

evidence under oath, demand the production of documents, demand information from<br />

Commonwealth agencies, apply for a search warrant and demand the production<br />

of a passport.<br />

Vehicle Rebirthing<br />

A criminal activity where a stolen or illicitly-obtained or made vehicle is given a new<br />

‘identity’, for example, by fitting a counterfeit or altered compliance plate, for the<br />

purpose of selling the rebirthed vehicle for profit. Vehicle Rebirthing can involve<br />

the use of vehicle ‘half-bodies’, written-off vehicles and stolen vehicles to produce<br />

saleable whole vehicles.<br />

Violent <strong>Crime</strong> Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)<br />

ViCLAS captures information nationally on serial and violent crimes such as<br />

attempted and actual homicides, sexual assaults, child abductions, and selected<br />

missing persons cases, with the aim of identifing offences potentially committed<br />

by the same offender(s), and assisting in the identification of the offender(s) at the<br />

earliest opportunity.<br />

162 I ACC ANNUAL REPORT 2003–04

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