Australian Federal Police About
Graduate Opportunities
enforcement organisation.
Graduates with law degrees are encouraged to apply.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is a multi-faceted law The AFP run a 12 month graduate program in Canberra.
The AFP strives to build a more secure future for Australia Legal graduates will undertake at least three rotations in and its global partners. Counter terrorism and national areas including: security are major business priorities.
- Criminal assets - Litigation
So, too, is the AFP's commitment to international relations - Legislation
which drive interagency collaboration and enable - Organised crime
transnational crime to be tackled anywhere. At a national - Industrial relations level, the AFP works with the Australian Government
and key agencies on a range of counter-terrorism, crime- You can find more information here: fighting and capacity building initiatives.
https://www.afp.gov.au/careers/graduate-program
The AFP provides a range of investigation and operational Fun Fact / Recent Project support, security risk management, security vetting and Operation Veyda information services to assist the public.
In 2020, five offenders were sentenced between eight to
What kind of work?
into a transnational crime syndicate that conspired to
30 years imprisonment following an AFP investigation
Lawyers are responsible for the provision of high quality, import more than 1.9 tonnes of illicit drugs into Australia.
cost effective in-house professional legal services that The major investigation successfully dismantled two directly support the operational law enforcement interlinked organised crime syndicates operating across activities of the AFP. This may include:
Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Europe.
- Providing advice to investigators on Commonwealth A futher 20 Australians and six Dutch nationals were powers and offences
charged as part of the investigation.
operations
More than $5.4 million dollars identified as proceeds of
- Providing support to large scale and long running
- Reviewing and updating operational procedures based crime was seized. on Commonwealth legislation
- Providing advice on international and inter-jurisdictional operational issues
- Providing advice on and support to the conduct of
prosecutions, including sufficiency of evidence, disclosure and protection of sensitive information
Location
Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne
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