Australian Federal Police

Australian Federal Police

Section 1: Agency overview and resources

1.1Strategic direction statement

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is an independent statutory authority whose functions are set out in section 8 of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 (the AFP Act). The AFP is also guided by a Ministerial Direction, issued under subsection 37(2) of the AFPAct.

Under section 8 of the AFP Act, the AFP’s functions include:

•the provision of police services in relation to laws of the Commonwealth, the property of the Commonwealth (including Commonwealth places), and the safeguarding of Commonwealth interests

•the provision of police services in relation to the Australian Capital Territory, the Jervis Bay Territory and Australia’s external territories (e.g. Christmas Island)

•protective and custodial functions as directed by the Minister

•the provision of police services and police support services to assist or cooperate with an Australian or foreign law enforcement agency, intelligence or security agency, or government regulatory agency, and

•the provision of police services and police support services in relation to establishing, developing and monitoring peace, stability and security in foreign countries.

The AFP also performs functions under the Witness Protection Act 1994 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

The Ministerial Direction issued on 1 July 2010 notes that the AFP is Australia’s international law enforcement and policing representative and the chief source of advice to the Australian Government on policing issues. It identifies a number of key strategic priorities, including:

•countering the threat of terrorism

•supporting implementation of the Commonwealth Organised Crime Strategic Framework

•safeguarding the nation’s economic interests from serious fraud, money laundering and other crimes

•contributing effectively to border management, including people smuggling

•combating transnational organised crime

•participating in international peacekeeping operations and capacity building

•countering the threat of cyber crime

•managing the law enforcement aspects of aviation security, and

•protecting specific individuals, establishments and events.

The Ministerial Direction also identifies other strategic priorities and sets out the Minister’s expectations of how the AFP will deliver on those priorities.

As a result of the Federal Audit of Police Capabilities undertaken by Mr Roger BealeAO in 2009, the AFP moved to a rationalised Portfolio Budget Statementreporting structure in 2010–11. This rationalisation saw seven Outcome 1 programs consolidated into four new programs: National Security—Policing; International Deployments; Operations—Policing; and Close Operational Support.The sole Outcome 2 program, ACT Community Policing, was unchanged.This new structure, and the government’s agreement to consolidate a range of lapsing and non-ongoing funding into the AFP’s base budget,has delivered greater certainty for AFP core operations and enables flexible resource allocation to meet directed and emerging priorities.In 2011–12, the AFP will continue to consolidate the new reporting structures and strengthen reporting and accountability by refining key performance indicators for the new structure addressing the broad range of AFP operational activities.The focus of the AFP’s Outcome 1 strategy will be application of resources to activities that are likely to have the greatest preventative impacts on criminal networks and security threats.

The AFP is held to the highest standards of professional and public accountability. The AFP’s professional standards are underpinned by the AFP core values and AFP code of conduct. The AFP core values are integrity, commitment, excellence, accountability, fairness and trust. The AFP is also subject to external oversight and accountability measures, including the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement.

The national security and criminal threat environment in which the AFP operates remains complex and dynamic. A significant measure of the AFP’s success is its
ability to work collaboratively with partner agencies. As a key member of the Australian national security community, the AFP leads and contributes to many whole-of-government national security initiatives. A number of the AFP’s operational investigations are undertaken together with state and territory police.Within the region and internationally, the AFP works with other international law enforcement agencies to address the threats of transnational crime and to prevent criminal activity offshore before it reaches Australia.

1.2Agency resource statement

Table 1.1 shows the total resources from all sources. The table summarises how resources will be applied by outcome and by administered and departmental classification.

Table 1.1: Agency resource statement—budget estimates for 2011–12 as at Budget May 2011

Estimate of
prior year / Actual
amounts / + / Proposed / = / Total / available
available in / at Budget / estimate / appropriation
2011–12 / 2011–12 / 2011–12 / 2010–11
$’000 / $’000 / $’000 / $’000
ORDINARY ANNUAL SERVICES1
Departmental appropriation
Prior year departmental
appropriation2 / 269,959 / – / 269,959 / 259,426
Departmental appropriation3 / – / 1,062,585 / 1,062,585 / 1,068,947
s 31 relevant agency receipts4 / – / 252,579 / 252,579 / 258,341
Total / 269,959 / 1,315,164 / 1,585,123 / 1,586,714
Administered expenses
Outcome 11 / – / 46,860 / 46,860 / 52,299
Total / – / 46,860 / 46,860 / 52,299
Total ordinary annual services / A / 269,959 / 1,362,024 / 1,631,983 / 1,639,013
OTHER SERVICES5
Departmental non-operating
Equity injections / 163,209 / 8,139 / 171,348 / 293,393
Total other services / B / 163,209 / 8,139 / 171,348 / 293,393
Total available annual
appropriations / 433,168 / 1,370,163 / 1,803,331 / 1,932,406
Total appropriations excluding
special accounts / 433,168 / 1,370,163 / 1,803,331 / 1,932,406
SPECIAL ACCOUNTS
Opening balance6 / 9,256 / – / 9,256 / 9,256
Appropriation receipts7 / – / 1,551 / 1,551 / 1,546
Non-appropriation receipts to
special accounts / – / 7,569 / 7,569 / 10,037
Total special accounts / C / 9,256 / 9,120 / 18,376 / 20,839
Total resourcing (A+B+C) / 442,424 / 1,379,283 / 1,821,707 / 1,953,245
Less appropriations drawn from
annual or special appropriations
above and credited to special
accounts and/or CAC Act bodies
through annual appropriations / – / (1,551) / (1,551) / (1,546)
Total net resourcing for agency / 442,424 / 1,377,732 / 1,820,156 / 1,951,699

All figures are GST exclusive.

1. Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2011–12.

2. Estimated adjusted balance carried forward from previous year.

3. Includes an amount of $53.698m in 2011–12 for the departmental capital budget (see Table3.2.5 for further details). For accounting purposes this amount has been designated as ‘contributions by owners’.

4. Section 31 relevant agency receipts—estimate.

5. Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2011–12.

6. Estimated opening balance for special accounts (less ‘special public money’ held in accounts such as Other Trust Moneys accounts, or Services for Other Governments and Non-Agency Bodies accounts). For further information on special accounts, see Table 3.1.2.

7. Appropriation receipts from annual appropriations for 2011–12 included above.

1.3Budget measures

Budget measures relating to the AFP are detailed in Budget Paper No.2 and are summarised below.

Table 1.2: Agency 2011–12 Budget measures

2010–11 / 2011–12 / 2012–13 / 2013–14 / 2014–15
Program / $’000 / $’000 / $’000 / $’000 / $’000
Expense measures
National Security—Australian Federal Police—United Nations Mission in Sudan—contribution / 1.2
Departmental expenses / – / 1,372 / 1,383 / – / –
Total / – / 1,372 / 1,383 / – / –
National Security—Australian Federal Police—forensics facility project / 1.4
Departmental expenses / – / (150) / – / – / –
Total / – / (150) / – / – / –
National Security—United Nations Mission in Cyprus—reduced contribution / 1.2
Departmental expenses / – / (863) / (1,989) / (2,006) / (2,021)
Total / – / (863) / (1,989) / (2,006) / (2,021)
Border Security—enhancing regional capability to combat people smuggling / 1.3
Administered expenses / – / 1,350 / 2,193 / – / –
Departmental expenses / – / 3,595 / 3,606 / – / –
Total / – / 4,945 / 5,799 / – / –
Efficiency dividend—temporary increase in the rate / 1.1, 1.2,
1.3, 1.4
Departmental expenses / – / (5,101) / (10,105) / (11,407) / (13,643)
Total / – / (5,101) / (10,105) / (11,407) / (13,643)
Total expense measures
Administered / – / 1,350 / 2,193 / – / –
Departmental / – / (1,147) / (7,105) / (13,413) / (15,664)
Total / – / 203 / (4,912) / (13,413) / (15,664)
Capital measures
Border Security—enhancing regional capability to combat people smuggling / 1.3
Departmental capital / – / 56 / – / – / –
Total / – / 56 / – / – / –
Efficiency dividend—temporary increase in the rate / 1.1, 1.2,
1.3, 1.4
Departmental capital / – / (273) / (729) / (1,110) / (1,261)
Total / – / (273) / (729) / (1,110) / (1,261)
Total capital measures
Departmental / – / (217) / (729) / (1,110) / (1,261)
Total / – / (217) / (729) / (1,110) / (1,261)

Prepared on a Government Finance Statistics (fiscal) basis.

Section 2: Outcomes and planned performance

2.1Outcomes and performance information

Government outcomes are the intended results, impacts or consequences of actions by the government on the Australian community. Commonwealth programs are the primary vehicle by which government agencies achieve the intended results of their outcome statements. Agencies are required to identify the programs that contribute to government outcomes over the budget and forward years.

Each outcome is described below together with its related programs, specifying the performance indicators and targets used to assess and monitor the performance of the AFPin achieving government outcomes.

Outcome 1: Reduced criminal and security threats to Australia’s collective economic and societal interests through co-operative policing services
Outcome 1 strategy

The AFP has four programs.Three of the programs are operational, namely: National Security—Policing; International Deployments; and Operations—Policing.The fourth program is Close Operational Support.

The three operational programs acknowledge key features of the current environment: (i) threats to Australians and Australia’s interests have an international base; (ii)organised serious crime represents, in itself, a security threat to Australian interests; and (iii) fragile states provide opportunities for terrorist and other criminal enterprises to flourish.These programs integrate prevention and disruption priorities towards crime reduction and impede criminal elements that threaten the security of Australians and Australian interests.

In 2011–12 the AFP will deliver under a realigned structure. This structure will focus on priority areas including the prevention and disruption of serious and organised crime and Commonwealth crimes that require immediate and priority intervention. The Crime Program, incorporating the Crime Operations and Serious and Organised Crime portfolios, now incorporates the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce. The Crime Program, along with the ongoing implementation of the Organised Crime Strategic Framework, will be instrumental in enabling appropriate resourcing of operational activity thereby ensuring sufficient flexibility to respond to emerging threats.

The fourth program, Close Operational Support, remains a single functional stream to support the three operational programs. Functions within this stream will ensure that the AFP remains well-positioned to address advancements in criminal use of emerging technologies. The AFP’s High-Tech Crime Operations will use science as a forensic tool to countertechnology-based criminal endeavours. AFP intelligence will proactively provide professional intelligence services to support law enforcement and national security activities and decision making.

The AFP will enhance intelligence-led and risk-based approaches, prioritise deployment of our resources around criminal and security risks and continuously reinvigorate our investigations capability. Accordingly, the critical focus of the AFP’s Outcome 1 strategy will be the application of resources and skills to where they will have the greatest preventative impacts and disruptive effect on criminal networks and security threats.

Outcome 1 expense statement

Table 2.1 provides an overview of the total expenses for Outcome 1, by program.

Table 2.1: Budgeted expenses for Outcome 1

Outcome 1: Reduced criminal and security threats to Australia’s collective economic and societal interests through co-operative policing services / 2010–11
Estimated / 2011–12
actual / Estimated
expenses / expenses
$’000 / $’000
Program 1.1: National Security—Policing
Departmental expenses
Departmental appropriation1 / 352,421 / 336,163
Special accounts / 2,431 / 1,623
Expenses not requiring appropriation in the budget year2 / 24,763 / 28,248
Total for Program 1.1 / 379,615 / 366,034
Program 1.2: International Deployments
Administered expenses
Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) / 35,461 / 36,595
Departmental expenses
Departmental appropriation1 / 302,036 / 285,954
Special accounts / 1,475 / 985
Expenses not requiring appropriation in the budget year2 / 19,856 / 23,089
Total for Program 1.2 / 358,828 / 346,623
Program 1.3: Operations—Policing
Administered expenses
Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) / 13,651 / 7,913
Departmental expenses
Departmental appropriation1 / 218,616 / 241,382
Special accounts / 4,282 / 3,727
Expenses not requiring appropriation in the budget year2 / 15,460 / 17,702
Total for Program 1.3 / 252,009 / 270,724
Program 1.4: Close Operational Support
Administered expenses
Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) / 3,187 / 2,352
Departmental expenses
Departmental appropriation1 / 252,824 / 246,447
Special accounts / 1,849 / 1,234
Expenses not requiring appropriation in the budget year2 / 20,838 / 29,092
Total for Program 1.4 / 278,698 / 279,125
Outcome 1 totals by appropriation type
Administered expenses
Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) / 52,299 / 46,860
Departmental expenses
Departmental appropriation1 / 1,125,897 / 1,109,946
Special accounts / 10,037 / 7,569
Expenses not requiring appropriation in the budget year2 / 80,917 / 98,131
Total expenses for Outcome 1 / 1,269,150 / 1,262,506
2010–11 / 2011–12
Average staffing level (number) / 5793 / 5721

Note: Departmental appropriation splits and totals are indicative estimates and may change in the course of the budget year as government priorities change.

1. Departmental appropriation combines ‘Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1)’ and ‘Revenue from independent sources (s31)’.

2. Expenses not requiring appropriation in the budget year are made up of depreciation and amortisation expense and resources received free of charge.

Contributions to Outcome 1
Program 1.1: National Security—Policing
Program 1.1 objective
This program contributes to Outcome 1 through a primary focus on prevention delivered by the following functions: Counter Terrorism, Aviation and Protection.
The Counter Terrorism function will prevent, disrupt and investigate terrorist activity against Australia and Australian interests both domestically and internationally.
Aviation will prevent and respond to crime at Australia’s major airports by providing the Airport Uniformed Operations Policing capability to perform a Counter-Terrorist First Response and community policing role. The Aviation function will continue to transition to the ‘All–In’ model (Project Macer) as outlined in the Federal Audit of Police Capabilities conducted by Mr Roger Beale AO, achieving efficiencies by consolidating Aviation’s administration and operational resources.
The Protection function will ensure that individuals and interests, identified by the Commonwealth to be at risk, are kept safe from acts of terrorism, crime and
issue-motivated violence. This will be achieved in partnership with other Commonwealth, state and territory agencies and government departments.
Program 1.1 expenses
Program 1.1 is expected to incur expenses of $366.034m in 2011–12, a reduction of $13.581m from 2010–11.This represents the net impact of lower expenditure for the 2010–11 budget measure Border Security—strengthening passenger and air cargo security, wage cost indexation, revised revenue estimates and the impact of efficiency dividend across the forward estimates.
2010–11 / 2012–13 / 2013–14 / 2014–15
Revised / 2011–12 / Forward / Forward / Forward
budget / Budget / year 1 / year 2 / year 3
$’000 / $’000 / $’000 / $’000 / $’000
Special account expenses
Services for other Governments and
Non-Agency Bodies Account / 2,431 / 1,623 / 1,661 / 1,711 / 1,763
Annual departmental expenses
Ordinary annual services
(Appropriation Bill No. 1) / 289,747 / 278,915 / 279,688 / 282,595 / 281,718
Revenue from independent sources
(section 31) / 62,674 / 57,248 / 57,071 / 57,891 / 58,974
Expenses not requiring appropriation in
the budget year1 / 24,763 / 28,248 / 30,240 / 23,057 / 21,646
Total program expenses / 379,615 / 366,034 / 368,660 / 365,254 / 364,101

1.Expenses not requiring appropriation in the budget year are made up of depreciation and amortisation expense and resources received free of charge.

Program 1.1 deliverables
Counter Terrorism
•Conduct and coordinate counter-terrorism investigations across states and territories through the inter-jurisdictional Joint Counter Terrorism Teams.
•Development of strategies to counter violent extremism and enhance the National Community Engagement Strategy.
•Enhancement of capacity and capability to identify, deter, prevent, disrupt and investigate terrorist activities, both domestically and internationally.
•Collaborative and cooperative engagement with regional partners to combat terrorism regionally and globally, including the provision of investigative, intelligence and forensic advice and ongoing multilateral engagement.
Aviation
Deliver Airport Uniform Operational Policing, which provides:
•responsibility for command and control of policing at major airports, including regional rapid deployment capability
•the transition from the Unified Policing Model to the ‘All-In’ model (Project Macer)
•a Firearms and Explosive Detection Dogs and Currency and Drug Detection Dogs capability
•a certified team of specialist operational Bomb Appraisal Officers
•JointAirport Investigation Teams
•graduated integration of closed circuit television capability in partnership with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service at major airports
•continued rollout of purpose-built accommodation at major airports
•a certified team of specialist Air Security Officers
•the conduct of response, capability and emergency exercises at major airports, and
•implementation of a crime prevention program (Aviation Watch) at major airports by 30 June 2012.
Protection
•Provision of strategic advice to key stakeholders in support of the delivery of the Commonwealth’s protective security policies.
•Operational engagement with key Commonwealth, state and territory and international stakeholders for delivery of protective security measures.
•Protection and security of individuals and critical infrastructure of Commonwealth interest including:
–designated Defence establishments, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, and the Commonwealth Parliament on a
cost-recovery basis
–official Commonwealth establishments
–diplomatic and consular missions in Australia
Program 1.1 deliverables(continued)
–negotiated Australian diplomatic missions overseas on a cost-recovery basis
–services to designated Australian high office holders within Australia and overseas, and resident and visiting foreign dignitaries, and
–a liaison role for designated Australian diplomatic missions overseas on a cost-recovery basis.
•Protective security planning and coordination of AFP response for designated special events within Australia and overseas.
•Witness protection services in accordance with the Witness Protection
Act 1994.
Program 1.1 key performance indicators
The strength of collaborative policing and cooperation within the national security and protection sector is measured by the level of satisfaction expressed in the AFP business satisfaction survey.This includes obtaining feedback from key stakeholders and clients within the realm of the Counter Terrorism, Aviation and Protection functions.
Successful planning, preparedness, response and recovery are reflected through concentration of resources on prevention of terrorism, criminal acts, dealing with issue-motivated violence and preparing operational responses, strategic advice and support to major events.This is delivered through deterrent and prevention activities, active patrolling, and proactive response to security operations and incidents based on intelligence-led threat and risk analysis.Successful disruption and deterrence is also reflected in successful criminal case outcomes.
The Aviation capability is additionally measured through meeting benchmark response times, and community confidence at airports.
The Witness Protection Act 1994 requires that the Commissioner keep the Minister informed of the performance and effectiveness of the National Witness Protection Program and, further, that in consultation with the Commissioner, the Minister must prepare and cause to be laid before each House of Parliament an annual report on those issues. The reporting of these matters is to be undertaken in a manner that does not prejudice the effectiveness or security of the National Witness Protection Program.

Program 1.1 key performance indicators(continued)