Our beginnings
The CMC came into existence on 1 January 2002 when the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) and the Queensland Crime Commission (QCC) merged to form the new organisation. The CJC had been established by the Criminal Justice Act 1989, to help restore confidence in our public institutions after the revelations of the 1987–89 Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption.  Download the Fitzgerald Inquiry report.
For several years, in addition to investigating police and public sector misconduct, the CJC worked with the police to investigate organised and major crime. In 1997 this crime function was taken over by the newly formed QCC, under the Crime Commission Act 1997; the QCC was also given the task of investigating paedophilia. In 2001 the Queensland Government decided to amalgamate these two commissions and form a single body to fight crime and public sector misconduct — the Crime and Misconduct Commission. The legislation under which the new body was created was the Crime and Misconduct Act 2001. Today the CMC is a unique organisation, not just in Queensland but in all of Australia. We operate on three ‘fronts’ — combating major crime, raising public sector integrity and protecting witnesses — and we offer a range of services (research, advice, intelligence, surveillance etc.), unequalled by any other organisation in Australia.
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