Strategic framework and decision-making The Board carries out its legislative functions under a formal strategic framework that links the ACC’s operating model and the Board’s statutory decision-making responsibilities. There are three decision- making phases that involve confirming targets, priorities and responses. This framework supports effective participation in processes and discussions to identify the ACC’s strategic direction and priorities, and to achieve the ACC’s outcome. National Criminal Intelligence Priorities The Board considers advice from the ACC, and draws on Board members’ experience as leaders in the law enforcement, national security and regulatory arenas, to endorse the National Criminal Intelligence Priorities (NCIPs). This is a legislated function of the Board. ACC priorities The Board receives various intelligence products and information, and considers a range of matters including strategic issues, significant areas of current ACC work and potential new areas of work. It takes all these matters into account to set priorities for the ACC; authorising investigations, intelligence operations and task forces. Coercive powers The Board confirms if investigations and operations are deemed ‘special’, which authorises the use of the ACC’s special coercive powers where traditional measures are not expected to be, or have not been, effective. The ACC’s coercive powers are similar to those of a Royal Commission and may only be exercised by an ACC Examiner for special operations or special investigations. The special powers allow the ACC to summon a person to give evidence under oath, require the production of documents, demand information from Commonwealth agencies, apply for a search warrant, and require the production of a passport.
Strategic framework and decision-making The Board carries out its legislative functions under a formal strategic framework that links the ACC’s operating model and the Board’s statutory decision-making responsibilities. There are three decision- making phases that involve confirming targets, priorities and responses. This framework supports effective participation in processes and discussions to identify the ACC’s strategic direction and priorities, and to achieve the ACC’s outcome. National Criminal Intelligence Priorities The Board considers advice from the ACC, and draws on Board members’ experience as leaders in the law enforcement, national security and regulatory arenas, to endorse the National Criminal Intelligence Priorities (NCIPs). This is a legislated function of the Board. ACC priorities The Board receives various intelligence products and information, and considers a range of matters including strategic issues, significant areas of current ACC work and potential new areas of work. It takes all these matters into account to set priorities for the ACC; authorising investigations, intelligence operations and task forces. Coercive powers The Board confirms if investigations and operations are deemed ‘special’, which authorises the use of the ACC’s special coercive powers where traditional measures are not expected to be, or have not been, effective. The ACC’s coercive powers are similar to those of a Royal Commission and may only be exercised by an ACC Examiner for special operations or special investigations. The special powers allow the ACC to summon a person to give evidence under oath, require the production of documents, demand information from Commonwealth agencies, apply for a search warrant, and require the production of a passport.
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