Australian Crime Commission (ACC)

The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) protects Australia from serious criminal threats through coordinating a strategic response and collecting assessing and disseminating intelligence and policing information.

We have a unique role as an intelligence agency that supports partners to deliver on their law enforcement functions.

We use our capabilities to make Australia hostile to criminal exploitation. We illuminate the criminal environment and support our national and international partners to apply maximum pressure on the most significant transnational serious organised crime threats we face.

What we do

We work with our national and international partners to conduct investigations, collect intelligence and furnish advice and assessments to combat serious and organised crime, including cybercrime and national security threats. We are the conduit for sharing criminal information and intelligence
between all federal, state and territory law enforcement agencies.

To perform our role and achieve our purpose, we:

• collect, correlate, analyse and disseminate criminal intelligence and information
• maintain a national criminal intelligence database
• develop strategic criminal intelligence assessments and advice on national criminal intelligence priorities
• conduct investigations and intelligence operations into federally relevant criminal activity
• provide and maintain systems that allow information sharing for policing and law enforcement agencies
• provide nationally coordinated criminal history checks.