Senator JACINTA COLLINS (Victoria—Manager of Government Business in the Senate and Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) (16:16): I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the Law Enforcement Integrity Legislation Amendment Bill 2012, allowing it to be considered during this period of sittings. I also table a statement of reasons justifying the need for this bill to be considered during these sittings and seek leave to have the statement incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The document read as follows— STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE IN THE 2012 SPRING SITTINGS LAW ENFORCEMENT INTEGRITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL Purpose of the Bill The bill introduces a range of measures to increase the resistance of Commonwealth law enforcement agencies to corruption and to enhance the range of tools available to law enforcement agencies to respond to corruption. The bill introduces integrity testing for staff members of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australian Crime Commission (ACC) and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (Customs) suspected of corrupt conduct. Integrity tests are operations designed to test whether a public official will respond to a simulated or controlled situation in a manner that is illegal or would contravene an agency's standard of integrity. The introduction of integrity testing has been recommended by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity. The bill also increases the jurisdiction of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity to include all staff in the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre and the CrimTrac Agency, and prescribed staff in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The bill also enhances the powers of the CEO of Customs to deal with suspected corrupt conduct and brings those powers in to line with powers currently available to the AFP Commissioner and the ACC CEO. Reasons for Urgency This bill contains a number of measures aimed at addressing recently identified opportunities to strengthen the resistance to corruption of a number of key Commonwealth law enforcement agencies. Introduction and passage of this bill in the 2012 Spring sittings of Parliament will allow these important anti-corruption measures to be implemented as soon as possible. The agencies affected by this bill all play a key role in border security. Delay in passage of the bill may provide opportunities for vulnerabilities in these agencies to be exploited by organised crime.