Document categories
The categories of documents listed below are maintained by the AFP in a variety of formats. The documents include:
- Accounting and budgetary records, including estimates, claims, payment records etc., held on files, in folders, on cards and in computer readable form
- Annual plans for internal audit activity
- Briefing papers and correspondence in relation to the Australasian Police Ministers' Council and the common police services, the Australasian and South-West Pacific Region Police Commissioners' Conference and South Pacific Chiefs of Police Conference
- Briefing papers and submissions prepared for the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice
- Computer software and hardware product evaluations
- Control registers concerning purchasing, official telephones, stores, assets, travel and internal services
- Copies of computer hardware and software purchase and maintenance contracts
- Correspondence on questions asked in Parliament, together with related replies
- Correspondence received including Ministerials
- Court documents and associated statements
- Crime statistics and criminal investigation reports and associated documents
- Forensic analysis reports (fingerprints, document examination and scientific) and associated documents
- General correspondence and files
- Internal control records, including working statistics and monthly reports
- Internal working papers
- Lost property reports and associated documents
- Manuals for computer operations standards and procedures
- Ministerial Directions in accordance with section 13 (2) of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979
- Operational records covering infringement notices, statistics and associated reports
- Organisation and staffing records, both manual and computerised, including organisation proposals, organisation charts, duty statements, lists of staff and establishment, position occupancy records
- Personal records for all officers for whom standard personnel services are provided
- Policy documents, including recommendations and decisions
- Press statements and media releases
- Procedures, instructions and guidelines
- Register of relevant Cabinet decisions and submissions
- Reports and associated working papers resulting from internal audit reviews
- Reports to the coroner (death and fire)
- Source listings of computer programs developed for the AFP's use
- Staff recruitment campaign records
- Subject indexes, nominal indexes and inward correspondence registers relating to departmental files
