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The ACIC contributes wastewater and other data to partners so they can focus resources on drugs which pose the highest threat to the community and areas where drug consumption is highest.
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) is working collaboratively with Commonwealth, state and territory stakeholders, including screening units and police agencies, to scope, design and trial a National Continuous Checking Capability (NCCC).
Serious and organised crime impacting Australia affects everyone. It threatens community safety and wellbeing, undermines our financial and tax systems and harms our most vulnerable people by defrauding the programs designed to support them.
We recognise the significant risk posed to the public and frontline personnel by unregistered and privately manufactured firearms, and we are actively monitoring this threat.
To help protect the Australian community, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission works together with Australian police agencies to deliver the National Police Checking Service. The NPCS provides access to Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Checks, which are commonly referred to as police checks.
The National Firearms Register (NFR) will allow law enforcement to better assess firearms risks with near real-time information on firearms, linking data with other relevant police and government information.
The National Criminal Investigation DNA Database (NCIDD) holds more than 1.8 million DNA profiles that have been uploaded by Australian police from crime scenes, convicted offenders, suspects, volunteers, items belonging to missing persons and unknown human remains.
All police checks, whether submitted through police agencies or ACIC Accredited Bodies are processed by the ACIC. Both the police and ACIC Accredited Bodies provide an avenue to dispute check results.
Methylamphetamine is produced in both crystal and powder form. No other drugs are captured under the definition of methylamphetamine, but it captures all forms of the drug (i.e., base, powder and crystal).
Traditional organised crime groups do not dominate the illicit fentanyl market in Australia, with many suppliers being opioid users or relatively low-level criminal entrepreneurs.