Crime and Intelligence Command

The Queensland Police Service Crime and Intelligence Command provides a professional and holistic response to crime within Queensland.

The Command has a workforce which is represented by plain-clothes officers and qualified staff members who provide specialist skills, advice and assistance.

The Command supports regions through the provision of investigative resources, research findings and professional legal, financial and technical advice.  It has a state-wide responsibility for identifying, investigating and suppressing criminal activity and criminal networks.  

CIC organisational chart

The Command’s purpose:

Together we target serious and organised crime to protect our community.

The Crime and Intelligence Command delivers enhanced intelligence and investigative capability for frontline policing through:

• Challenging the current operating environment through a collaborative lens
• Maintaining the specialities of crime and intelligence and continue to build regional capability
• Greater understanding of the influences impacting on the QPS environments
• Prioritising resources for greatest impact on crime and support to frontline
• Discovering opportunities to build on future capacity
• Enhancing the prevention and disruption strategies to reduce the impact of crime on the community, and
• Remaining the central point of contact for interstate, international, government and industry partners for matters pertaining to serious and organised crime.

Our clients 

• Regions and Commands within the Service
• Victims of crime
• Intrastate, interstate, national and international law enforcement agencies
• Queensland community
• Industry representatives, and
• Government agencies

Our service standards

Crime and Intelligence Command will provide appropriate services to clients. The delivery of services will be premised on the following fundamental principles:

• Professionalism
• Responsiveness
• Equity
• Accessibility
• Accountability, and
• Continual improvement

The Command will strive to deliver a range of services to meet client needs and expectations. Adopting a flexible service delivery model will maximise resources and enhance the Command’s capacity to meet the variety of needs across its client base. 

The Command will seek to identify client needs and match these with resource capabilities. The Command commits to open communication with clients to arrive at a mutually acceptable level of service delivery.

Client satisfaction will be monitored regularly to identify areas requiring further clarification, and possible services requiring improvement. As a base indicator however, clients can expect:

• Timely and appropriate responses
• Information
• Support, sensitivity and respect
• Participation and cooperation
• Professionalism, and
• Integrity