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| - | [[Australia|Australia's]] legal system, and law enforcement organisations are heavily based on those used in England. The legal systems are virtually identical.
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| - | =Law Enforcement=
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| - | In Australia, most law enforcement is carried out at the State/Territory level, with each state, and most territories maintaining their own police forces. The Federal Government also maintains police forces for specific purposes.
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| - | ==Commonwealth Police Forces==
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| - | The Commonwealth Government maintains police forces for specific purposes. The Commonwealth is also responsible for policing some territories. The departments maintaining police forces include the Attorney General's Department, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the [[Military of Australia|Department of Defence]], and the Treasury.
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| - | The following police forces are under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth (listed by responsible Department):
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| - | ===Attorney General's Department===
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| - | ====Australian Federal Police====
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| - | The Australian Federal Police is Australia's premier Commonwealth police force. It collaborates with all other Australian police forces, and international police forces. The Federal Police has several sub-organisations including the Australian Federal Police Protective Service, the Community Policing Division, and the Australian Capital Territory Police. The AFP has the following responsibliities
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| - | *Enforcement of Commonwealth law including
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| - | **Drug smuggling
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| - | **Organised people smuggling
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| - | **Major fruad against the Commonwealth
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| - | **"Cyber-crime"
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| - | **Transnational crime, multijurisdictional crime
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| - | **Money laundering
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| - | **Organised crime
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| - | =====Community Policing Division/ACT Police=====
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| - | *Community policing in the following territories
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| - | **Australian Capital Territory
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| - | **Christmas Island
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| - | **Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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| - | **Coral Sea Islands Territory
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| - | **Jervis Bay Territory
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| - | **Norfolk Island
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| - | =====Australian Federal Police Protective Service=====
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| - | *Protection of government buildings, installations, and property
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| - | *Protection of airports
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| - | *Protection of Foreign Embassies, High Commissions, and Consulates in Australia
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| - | *Protection of Australian Embassies, High Commissions, and Consulates overseas
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| - | *Close protection of persons whose protection is deemed necessary by the Commonwealth
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| - | ====Australian Customs Service====
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| - | Managing the security and integrity of the Australian border, facilitating the movement of legitimate international travellers and goods, and collecting border related duties and taxes
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| - | ====Australian Crime Commission====
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| - | Fighting nationally significant crime, and organised crime
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| - | ====Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity====
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| - | Fighting corruption, specifically in the AFP, and ACC
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| - | ===Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry===
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| - | *Australian Quarantine and Investigation Service
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| - | ===Department of the Treasury===
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| - | *Australian Securities and Investments Commission
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| - | ===Department of Defence===
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| - | *Royal Australian Corps of Military Police ([[Australian Army|Army]])
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| - | **Responsible for security of Army establishments, field security, POW's, traffic control, counter-intelligence, criminal law enforcement, and forensic investigation on Army establishments, and in the field with Army units.
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| - | *Royal Australian Air Force Security Police ([[Royal Australian Air Force|Air Force]])
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| - | **Responsible for security of RAAF bases, criminal law enforcement on RAAF bases, and forensic investigation.
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| - | *Naval Police Coxswains ([[Royal Australian Navy]])
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| - | **Responsible for criminal law enforcement on RAN shore establishments and ships, Whole Ship Coordination, assisting local law enforcement during foreign shore visits
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| - | ==State and Territory Police Forces==
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| - | Each State as well as the Northern Territory is responsible for maintaining its own police force which is responsible for policing at the state and local level. This involves general law and order, traffic policing, major crime, anti-terrorism branches, water police, search and rescue and in some states transit police. State police agencies also assist the Australian Federal Police. Local policing in the Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory and Australia's external territories is contracted to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
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| - | In some states, local governments employ by-laws officers or rangers to enforce local by-laws or ordinances relating to such matters as parking, dog ownership, retailing, littering or water usage. These local government officers are not considered to be police forces as they generally only have the power to issue fines and do not have the same powers as state police. They may rely upon appointment as a Special Constable or legislated powers for their authority.
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| - | The following state and territory police forces operate in [[Australia]]
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| - | *Fiji Police
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| - | *New South Wales Police Force
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| - | *New Zealand Police
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| - | *Northern Territory Police
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| - | *Papua New Guinea Police
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| - | *Queensland Police Service
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| - | *Royal Solomon Islands Police
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| - | *South Australia Police
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| - | *Tasmanian Police
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| - | *Victoria Police
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| - | *Western Australia Police
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| - | ==Equipment and Weapons==
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| - | With the exception of the Department of Defence's police agencies (which use ADF standard equipment), most Australian police forces use similar, or identical equipment.
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| - | ===Weapons===
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| - | *Glock 22 .40S&W pistol
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| - | *Smith and Wesson Model 10 .38 Special revolver (Victoria)
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| - | *Smith and Wesson Model 19 and 66 .357 Magnum revolver (South Australia)
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| - | *Glock 17 9mm pistol (New Zealand)
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| - | *Browning L9A1 9mm pistol ([[Military of Australia|ADF]], Fiji)
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| - | *F88 Austeyr 5.56mm assault rifle ([[Military of Australia|ADF]])
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| - | *AR-15 5.56mm semi-automatic rifle (New South Wales)
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| - | *F88C-Police 5.56mm semi automatic carbine
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| - | *Ruger Mini-14 (Western Australia)
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| - | *HK UMP40-SF
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| - | *Remington 870 12ga shotgun
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| - | ===Other equipment===
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| - | *Expandable Baton
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| - | *Handcuffs
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| - | *Radios
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| - | *OC Spray
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| - | *Tasers (Queensland, NSW, and Solomon Islands only)
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| - | *Mobile Data Terminals
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| - | ===Vehicles===
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| - | *Ford Falcon
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| - | *Holden Commodore
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| - | *Holden Rodeo
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| - | *Toyota Hilux
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| - | *Ford Falcon Ute (as a caged truck)
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| - | *BMW Motorcycles (road)
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| - | *Suzuki Motorcycles (off road)
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70cLwP Thanks again for the post.Really looking forward to read more. Great.
