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Recommendations

Recommendation 1

2.25         The Committee recommends that, to provide an opportunity for proper public debate, the government involve the Committee at an early stage of the development of legislation affecting important operational or civil liberties issues.

Recommendation 2

2.55         The Committee recommends that the ACC consider the release of public versions of key research, including a declassified version of the Picture of Criminality.

Recommendation 3

2.62         The Committee recommends that the ACC review the legal and administrative arrangements governing information on its intelligence networks and provide the Committee with a briefing on the results. This should include both any current limits to the access to information, as well as access, accountability and control processes.

Recommendation 4

2.68 The Committee recommends continued refinement of the performance measures, including an explanation of the significance of quantitative and qualitative indicators.

Recommendation 5

2.71 The Committee recommends that the performance indicators relating to criminal intelligence operations include – subject to reasonable security considerations – how priority is allocated to matters submitted to the ACC Board for consideration.

Recommendation 6

2.76         The Committee recommends that information relating to the results of legal proceedings be refined to indicate more clearly the numbers of charges that proceed and are successfully prosecuted.

Recommendation 7

2.82 The Committee recommends further refinement of the reporting measures for 'Investigations into Federally relevant criminal activity', including more specific breakdown of information relating to forfeiture of the proceeds of crime, and the meaning of qualitative measures such as 'disruption of established criminal networks'.

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