Our vision – trustworthy government
Our Purpose
To strengthen public confidence in the integrity of the ACT government by preventing, investigating, and exposing corruption
Our Values
Independence
Our actions are lawful, ethical, evidence based, and free from political direction or influence and bias
Professionalism
We demonstrate excellence, respect, courtesy, and dedication in all that we do
Accountability
We accept responsibility for our actions and decisions; transparency and consistency are fundamental to our business.
Fairness
We will exercise the Commission’s powers fairly, paying due respect to civil and human rights
Our Functions
Investigate
We investigate corruption, without fear or favour, prioritising possible serious and systemic corrupt conduct
Supervise
We ensure that public interest disclosures are properly investigated, and whistle-blowers protected from retaliation
Expose
We uncover corruption, share our knowledge, and publish our findings
Prevent
We work collaboratively with community and government to understand current and emerging risks to the integrity of government; we develop and apply measures to build resistance to corruption
Educate
We are leaders in anti-corruption efforts, developing and delivering corruption awareness and prevention education
Our Strategic Goals
People
We strive to be an employer of choice. With a focus on diversity, we will build workforce capability with appropriate skills, qualifications and experience to deliver our mission. We will empower our people, developing their skills and knowledge to help them realise their full potential
Engagement
Our immediate focus is raising awareness of our mission and vision by engaging with community and government. We will build new relationships and nurture existing relationships by modelling collaboration and cooperation, working with others to achieve lasting positive outcomes.
Operations
We will apply professional investigation techniques, embrace technology and innovation, build an effective Intelligence capability and endeavour to deliver optimum corruption prevention strategies.
Reputation
Whilst maintaining appropriate confidentiality, we will be transparent in our activities; we will lead by example, modelling fairness, ethical behaviour, and integrity; we will demonstrate acceptance of accountability to deliver on our mission through our actions.
Organisation
We will develop clear and transparent operating methodologies and governance arrangements to guide our activities. We will manage our resources efficiently, effectively and ethically.
Knowledge
We will share our knowledge widely, taking a lead role in developing and sharing corruption prevention and investigation strategies and techniques to build understanding and resilience to corruption.