Question - Australian Federal Police

1. Further to a question asked to the Minister on 8 April 2025 about the Professional Standards Unit investigation in relation to an Sergeant David Power’s breach of the AFP Code of Conduct, can the Minister advise (a) what work is underway to amend the secrecy provisions in the AFP Act and the AFP Regulations so that information, including the finding of the breach and sanctions, is not protected by secrecy provisions and so that Canberrans can have faith in the AFP, (b) what are the “multiple avenues for external oversight of ACT Police” that the Minister referred to in their response, (c) which of those avenues make information about investigations into AFP members public and (d) what information for each of those avenues is made public e.g. sanctions, findings and any other information.
2. How many matters have been referred to the AFP Professional Standards Unit or any other avenue (like those the Minister referenced in question time on 8 April 2025) relate to proceedings where the officer being investigated was the informant or involved in the charges being brought where those charges were ultimately dismissed against the defendants in the matter.
3. In how many of those matters that were dismissed were the defendants who had been arrested identified as First Nations people.
4. What was the outcome of the investigations of the matters referred to in part (2).

Please see attached PDF for a copy of the answer to question on notice No 351.