Sharing national policing information for a safer community
CrimTrac demands the highest standards of conduct and integrity from all its employees, including contractors and external service providers. CrimTrac’s reputation is of vital importance. It enables the Agency to work in partnership with Australia’s police agencies to provide services that allow police to easily share information with each other across state and territory borders.
CrimTrac as a Commonwealth agency, has a responsibility to develop, implement and encourage sound financial, legal and ethical decision-making and agency practices.
In response to the Commonwealth’s initiatives in fraud management, CrimTrac undertook a fraud risk assessment in 2011 and implemented the CrimTrac Fraud Control Plan 2011–2013, which covers prevention, detection, investigation and reporting strategies.
The CrimTrac Fraud Control Plan 2011–2013 represents the Agency’s commitment to effective fraud risk management and control. The desired outcome of this commitment is to minimise the potential for fraud on CrimTrac’s programs or activities whether by employees or persons external to the Agency.
The implementation of the CrimTrac Fraud Control Plan 2011–2013 will assist the Chief Executive Officer in meeting the requirements of the 2011 Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines and section 45 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.
CrimTrac has adopted the 2011 Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines definition of fraud being; "dishonestly obtaining a benefit, or causing a loss, by deception or other means".
Fraud can involve financial and non-financial incidents that have an impact upon the operations and the reputation of the agency and can be by staff (internal fraud) or by persons external to the agency (external fraud), or by a combination of both.
Fraud against the Commonwealth is an offence under various provisions of the Criminal Code Act 1995. Internal fraud also constitutes misconduct under the Public Service Act 1999.