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Youth Crime and Justice
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Facilitating discussions with subject matter experts to examine the impacts of youth crime and justice challenges for policing.
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Policing Innovator
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Sharing and connecting police innovations across Australia and New Zealand.
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Road Safety
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Engaging in Road Safety/Road Policing activities (including National Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan)
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Family Violence
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Co-ordination of policing input into strategies combatting family violence.
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ANZPAA e-Scans
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Analyses on key issues and trends affecting the policing environment.
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Engender Change
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Developing an event Leading Through a Crisis to support the Engender Change program objective of transforming forensic science culture through leadership. View
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Minimum Requirement Documents for forensic science
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Collaborating on the development of Minimum Requirements Documents to support emerging forensic laboratories in developing countries to provide scientific services to the criminal justice system. View
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Specialist Advisory Groups
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Provide an essential mechanism to support and promote the continuous improvement of forensic disciplines, encouraging collaboration and innovative thinking.
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Forensic Genetic Genealogy Community of Interest
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Providing strategic advice to the Forensic Genetic Genealogy Community of Interest. The initial focus of this NSW Police co-coordinated initiative is identifying key issues and developing an operational framework for forensic genetic genealogy.
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Forensic Intelligence Lexicon
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Transition of the Forensic Intelligence Community of Interest to the Forensic Intelligence Specialist Advisory Group. The current focus of this group is the finalisation of a standardised lexicon for forensic intelligence to reduce risks of miscommunication and increase efficiencies in intelligence processes.
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Activity Level Reporting Course
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The ANZPAA NIFS Chemical Criminalistics Specialist Advisory Group is currently advising a major European university on developing a syllabus for an online activity level reporting course tailored for Australian and New Zealand forensic practitioners.
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Standardised Forensic Consumable Pricing Arrangements
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Explore a framework to support forensic agencies negotiate standardised consumable prices to bring cost savings to agencies. The initial focus will be in analytical chemistry areas.
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ANZPAA NIFS Service Level Agreement
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Negotiating the ANZPAA NIFS Service Level Agreement 2022-2025 with funding partner agencies.
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Religious and Spiritual Diversity
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Reviewing A Practical Reference to Religious and Spiritual Diversity for Operational Police. It provides an overview of nine religions and spiritualities and is aimed at providing police with a greater understanding of religious and spiritual diversity and to enhance policing services to the community.
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ICCS Plus
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Reviewing ICCS Plus: A Common Approach to Incident Management. This document is a principle-based framework in which incident management arrangements across Australia can be aligned. View
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Cross-jurisdictional police research priorities
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Reviewing the ANZPAA Cross-jurisdictional police research priorities. These provide a foundation from which research efforts can be directed and focused to provide value to police, researchers and the community.
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AFSAB Enhancement
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ANZPAA NIFS, in collaboration with experts in crime scene, fingerprint and firearm examination, are enhancing the AFSAB Board and assessment processes. View
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National DNA Consumables Pricing
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Supporting forensic science agencies to negotiate standardised consumable prices for DNA consumables to produce cost savings.
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Artificial Intelligence and Policing
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Examining the diverse challenges, opportunities and risks for policing with the advances in artificial intelligence technologies.
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Forensic Science Standards Development
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As a member of the Standards Australia Committees, ANZPAA NIFS is supporting the development of Australian and International standards to ensure consistent and reliable forensic services.
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AFSAB Certification
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Processing new certification and re-certification applications. View
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After the Fact (AtF) Proficiency Test
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Currently delivering the AtF Proficiency Test to 650 crime scene investigators across Australia.View
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Forensic Capability Mapping Framework
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Developing a framework to identify current capability risks and future needs to support forensic agencies' strategic planning at the cross-jurisdictional level.
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Dedicated Focus of Research and Innovation
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ANZPAA NIFS is seeking applications from forensic services to fund operationally relevant research that strengthens empirical data supporting forensic science. The ANZPAA NIFS Research and Innovation Advisory Committee is also under review to maximise information sharing and collaboration on cross-jurisdictional priority projects.
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