The Queensland Crime Commission (QCC) was an independent

Queensland Government The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended fr ...

entity established on 2 March 1998 to investigate criminal activity, in particular, criminal

paedophilia Pedophilia ( alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty ...

and major and organised crime. On 1 January 2002, the QCC and the former Criminal Justice Commission were merged to establish the Queensland

Crime and Misconduct Commission The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) is an independent Queensland Government entity created to combat and reduce the incidence of major crime and to continuously improve the integrity of, and to reduce the incidence of misconduct in, the Q ...

.''Crime and Misconduct Act 2001'' (Qld)
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