Federal police have increasingly relied on once-rare tools to watch “high risk” terrorism offenders who have been released into the community.
Sixteen control orders related to terror offences have been applied for since the tool was made available to crime-fighting agencies in 2005, including 10 made since February 2019 and five so far this year.
AFP counter-terrorism assistant commissioner Scott Lee and deputy commissioner Ian McCartney during hearing at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Gary Ramage“The increase is primarily in relation to the high-risk terrorism offender cohort who have been released from custody,” Mr Lee told the inquiry in Parliament House.
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