This unit covers the ethical conduct required of those in public service and the responsibility to encourage ethical conduct in others – colleagues or supervised staff. It includes contributing to an ethical public sector workplace and participating in ethical decision making.

This unit covers the use of advanced communication strategies for interacting with internal and external clients. It includes dealing with complex enquiries and complaints, giving directions, managing meetings and making workplace and public presentations. Though the prime focus of the unit is on speaking, listening and reading non-verbal cues, if reading, writing and visual literacy are intrinsic to the workplace communication, these are included.

This unit covers the competency to encourage others (colleagues or those supervised) in the workplace to comply with legislation. It includes assisting others to comply with legislative requirements, and taking action on non-compliance.

This unit covers the exercise of powers under the organisation’s enabling legislation, and other relevant legislation for regulation, monitoring, inspection and investigation. It includes establishing regulatory powers, applying enabling legislation, utilising other legislation and standards, and working with other organisations.

This unit covers identification of possible non-compliance and recommendations for ensuing action. It includes initiating a preliminary investigation to confirm non-compliance, and planning, conducting and finalising the investigation.

This unit covers the competency to conduct and produce formal records of interview with suspects. It includes preparing for the interview, conducting the interview, and completing the record of interview.

This unit covers gathering information through interviews that do not result in a formal record of interview in the legal sense. Interviews may be conducted in a range of locations for a range of reasons. They may be overt or covert. The unit includes preparing for the interview, conducting the interview, and reviewing and correlating interview information.

This unit covers all activities involved in gathering and managing evidence. It includes planning and activating evidence collection, identifying persons of interest, collecting and storing evidence, and summarising and reporting on evidence.

This unit covers ongoing review of activities throughout an investigation to ensure the effective outcome of the investigation. It includes summarising and reporting on the progress of an investigation, identifying and analysing problems and recommending further action.

This unit covers the requirements for completing investigations, reviewing the process and reporting results. It includes finalising the investigation, handling complaints and appeals, preparing an investigation report and using investigation outcomes.

This unit covers the competency to contribute to a safe workplace for self and others. It includes contributing to workplace safety arrangements, identifying hazards and controlling risks.

This unit covers the collection of data from a wide variety of sources and its input into appropriate data management systems for interrogation to identify indicators of fraud and corruption. It includes collating and interrogating data and monitoring for indicators of fraud and corruption.

This unit covers the activities required to undertake strategic analysis and detection of corruption or fraudulent activities. It includes hypothesising fraud and corruption situations, initiating projects to test newly identified risk areas, analysing trends in fraud and corruption activities and investigations, recommending courses of action and providing information on recommended actions.

This unit covers activities related to handling data received from a variety of sources which may then be acted upon or referred for further action. It includes receiving and recording data, verifying its authenticity and recommending/taking action as a result.

This unit covers activities involved in analysing and matching data from a range of sources. It includes analysing information, and documenting outcomes of the analysis.