Program · Outcome 1: To protect Australia from criminal threats through coordinating a strategic response and the collection, assessment and dissemination of intelligence and policing information
Program 1.1: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
The ACIC supports the protection of Australia from criminal threats through developing and coordinating innovative disruption strategies that disable or dismantle criminal groups. The ACIC, through Board- approved special investigations and special operations collects, assesses and disseminates criminal intelligence to improve the national ability to respond to crime affecting Australia. The ACIC provides high-quality national policing information systems and services to Commonwealth and law enforcement partners and keeps the community safe through delivery of background checking services to support employment or entitlement decisions.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 97 reported
$366m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$7.6m (−2.0%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Policing Information Systens and Services Special Account | departmental | $177m | $174m | −$3.1m −1.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 764 |
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $168m | $167m | −$238k −0.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 762 |
| s74 external revenue | departmental | $22m | $20m | −$2.6m −11.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 763 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $6.6m | $4.9m | −$1.7m −25.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 765 |