Running head: FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW Federal Criminal Law Name of the Student Name of the University Author Note
1FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................2 The Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP)..............................3 Overlapping of powers....................................................................................................................3 The Concept of National Security under the Government of Australia on the overlapping the powers..............................................................................................................................................4 News Article....................................................................................................................................5 The Australian Security and Intelligence Organization and Australian Federal Police..................6 Overlapping functions.....................................................................................................................6 News Article....................................................................................................................................7 Advantages and Disadvantages.......................................................................................................8 Recommendations............................................................................................................................8 Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9 Reference.......................................................................................................................................10
2FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW Introduction Historically policing has been restricted to the defense of legal territories. The territory can be any territory which may involve a federal, state or even a municipal territory. The governmentsforthemanagementofsuchterritorieshaveestablishedafewpolicing organizations, which includes Australian Border Force (ABF), Australian Federal Police (AFP), and Australian Security and Intelligence Organization (ASIO). However the functions of such agencies are not always separate from each other and there are various situations where it has been identified that there has been an overlap between the powers of such agencies. There question which arises is that whether the overlapping of such powers and jurisdiction is harmful or beneficial for has to the state. This essay argues that there is a significant overlap in functions and jurisdictions between numerous agencies operating at a federal level within Australia (Van et al. 2015). In order to determine the topic sentence it is necessary to analyze the various literary works available on the topic. These include peer reviewed journal articles and news provided by renowned newspapers in relation to the topic sentence. The paper provides what powers are overlapping between the ABF and AFP as well as ASIO and AFB and then analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of such overlapping. The paper also provides recommendations for the purpose of enhancing the regime.
3FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW The Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Overlapping of powers The ABF is one of the important departments in the Department of Immigration and Border Protection who are appoint for the protection for the offshore and onshore control enforcement investigation, detention operation and compliance in Australia. It is works as a law enforcement agency, which applied legislative powers through the sworn officer who are authorize to carry firearms. The ABF mainly works and control the movement of people and goods in Australian Border area. The ABF works with two forces that are Operations Group and the Support Group (Grewcock, 2014). The operational group manage the responsibilities which are related with the goods, travelers and cargos under the border area and the support group manage the responsibilities where they helps to provide the support, planning and specialist services to ensure operational continuity across the border area. The ABF is works with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service where holds the operational activities and investigations along with the Personal Defensive Equipment (PDE). Under the Australian Border Force Act 2015 the officers from ABF legislates and exercise their powers to apply the Migration Act 1958 along with the Commonwealth legislation for working in the immigration detentions. The AFP operated the federal law enforcement agency under the Australian Government for investigate crimes and provide protections for the national security of Australia. Under the Attorney General Department, the AFP is one of the national agencies who works for the Minister of Justice. Under such exercise of the legislated powers it works for the preventing, investigating and disrupting transnational, serious crimes which also includes the terrorism,
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