Australia
Forensic science in Australia
A Commonwealth forensic command supporting the Australian Capital Territory, national and international policing — and not the states, which do most of Australia’s policing.
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The Australian Federal Police states that "Forensics Command members support Australian Capital Territory, national and international policing". Those three are the whole of what the page claims, and the states are not among them — which follows from the constitutional position described on Australia’s other pages, where the general police power stayed with the states at federation.
The disciplines the command names are broad: crime scene investigation; firearms identification and armoury services; biological and chemical criminalistics; identification sciences including fingerprint and facial identification; document sciences; imagery and geomatics; digital forensics; audio and video analysis; bomb or hazardous scene examination; disaster victim identification; weapons and technical intelligence; forensic intelligence; and forensic drug intelligence.
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Team member — Forensics: AFP Forensics Command
Australian Federal Police · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-18
SCOPE: the Australian Federal Police’s own forensic command, and only what this page states about it. Supports that "Forensics Command members support Australian Capital Territory, national and international policing", and the disciplines it names: crime scene investigation; firearms identification and armoury services; biological and chemical criminalistics; identification sciences including fingerprint and facial identification; document sciences; imagery and geomatics; digital forensics; audio and video analysis; bomb or hazardous scene examination; disaster victim identification; weapons and technical intelligence; forensic intelligence; and forensic drug intelligence. THE SCOPE SENTENCE IS THE FINDING: the command supports the Australian Capital Territory, national and international policing — and the states, which do the great majority of Australian policing, are not among them. LIMITATION, and it is the same one Sweden’s record carries: the page read is in the force’s recruitment section rather than an institutional description, so it establishes what the command covers and which disciplines it holds, and nothing about its legal basis, its governance, or its accreditation. The page gives no facility locations and none is claimed.