Ms Fiona Crowley:

It is interesting that the Human Rights Commission's submission raises this point of whether policing and national security functions should be severed. It is Amnesty International's general position that national security and intelligence functions should never be vested in a police or military service but should instead be constituted entirely separately. This is because of the difficulties in providing the different forms of oversight that are needed and also the risk of mission creep, or one function infecting the other.