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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 2:54 pm
The ministers agreed that the states and territories should consider introducing the following legislative measures, where they have not already done so:
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- measures that permit coercive questioning of individuals to assist with investigation of organised crime offences;
- consorting or similar provisions that prevent a person associating with another person who is involved in organised criminal activity as an individual or through an organisation;
- measures that enable police to engage in controlled operations and enable the use of assumed identities to facilitate investigations and intelligence gathering;
- legislation to permit the use of surveillance devices for the purposes of investigating serious and organised crime;
- witness protection legislation and asset confiscation legislation to enable a court to restrain a person's tainted assets;
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model cross-border investigative powers for controlled operations, assumed identities, witness identity protection and surveillance devices.
Emphasis mine in above list.