Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The Act's purposes are to be achieved primarily by establishing a permanent commission to be called the Crime and Misconduct Commission.
(2) The commission is to have investigative powers, not ordinarily available to the police service, that will enable the commission to effectively investigate major crime.
(3) Also, the commission is to help units of public administration to deal effectively, and appropriately, with misconduct by increasing their capacity to do so while retaining power to itself investigate cases of misconduct, particularly more serious cases of misconduct.
(4) Further, the commission has particular powers for investigations into confiscation related activities for supporting its role under the Confiscation Act.