This document is published by the CMC to inform the community of current issues in law enforcement and crime prevention.
Since 1999, the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has monitored Queensland’s organised crime markets — including the organised property crime market — by means of a series of strategic assessments (CMC 2004, 2009; Queensland Crime Commission & Queensland Police Service 1999).
These have consistently assessed the risk posed by organised property crime in Queensland as medium. In 2012 the CMC decided not to conduct a dedicated assessment of the organised property crime market.
Instead, it reviewed organised crime trends in Queensland and identified the following current and emerging issues in organised property crime:
- motor vehicle theft and rebirthing
- boat theft and rebirthing
- heavy equipment theft
- copper theft.
This report was published on 29 November 2012.
