A Dependent Commission Against Corruption
- Report length
- 16 pages
Summary
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South Australia’s Independent Commission Against Corruption reported on the consequences of losing its ability to refer cases directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The report compared the referral process before and after the legislative changes and considered arrangements in other jurisdictions.
The Commissioner concluded that the restrictions reduced independence, duplicated work, caused delay and obstructed direct contact with prosecutors.
The single recommendation sought a legislative amendment restoring direct referrals to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
The loss of the Commission’s independence, double handling, delay and the lack of direct communication with the prosecutor are all consequences of the current position.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
No findings or recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
This publisher
- Office for Public Integrity: publishes only its annual reports (excluded); no OPI report or statement records.
- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
- Government and agency responses are recorded only where the Commission's page links them or the report reproduces them; implementation status is not published by the Commission as structured data.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not read (no OCR); their recommendations stay not_extracted.
- Recommendations are extracted only from numbered 'Recommendation N' lists; reports that set out recommendations in prose, tables or unnumbered lists keep recommendations_status not_extracted.
- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.