History
The Commission has its origins with the April 2002 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Leaders Summit which agreed that a new national framework was needed to meet the challenges of combating terrorism and multi-jurisdictional crime. Consequently, the amalgamation of the former National Crime Authority (NCA), the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence (ABCI) and the Office of Strategic Crime Assessment (OSCA) took place and the ACC was formed. This combination, along with the then new powers granted to it in the ACC Act 2002, enables the ACC to wield wide ranging jurisdictions and authority and thus to better execute its purposes, with its stated primary objective being strengthening the fight against nationally significant crime within Australia.
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