Law enforcement plays a vital role in helping protect the integrity of sport.
Reporting threats like the use or trafficking of performance and image enhancing drugs to Sport Integrity Australia, helps prevent criminal activity linked to organised crime.
Even minor tips can lead to proactive action, protecting athletes and preserving fair competition.
Our role in law enforcement
We play a national coordination role for all sport integrity related matters, including investigating threats to sports integrity and providing assistance and advice to sports.
We work with key partners including law enforcement to reduce the integrity threats through proactive preventative actions.
Law Enforcement Partnership Program
In 2024, Sport Integrity Australia launched the Law Enforcement Partnership Program to strengthen collaboration with law enforcement.
The initiative aims to drive information sharing and joint operational efforts to address cases involving potential criminal activity that threaten the integrity of sport.
Our aim is to improve how we prevent and respond to sport integrity threats in Australia through collaboration.
National Strategy for Information Sharing
The National Strategy for Information Sharing enables these opportunities with law enforcement agencies.
The program supports a strong and cohesive network between us and our stakeholders. These include Commonwealth, State and Territory agencies and regulators. Their specialties are in law enforcement, intelligence and safeguarding.
Report an integrity concern
Law enforcement can help keep sport clean and fair, by reporting threats facing sport such as illicit drugs, steroids and child safeguarding matters.
Contact our Law Enforcement Partnerships team
For help reporting a concern or to connect, email: lawenforcementpartnershipsprogram@sportintegrity.gov.au
Memorandum of Understandings (MoU)
We signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with state and territory police including the Australian Federal Police.
- These MoUs help to build partnerships and abilities
- They improve how we find and respond to emerging sport integrity threats and law enforcement, to help our agency protect sport from crime.
Law Enforcement Conference
We host a yearly Law Enforcement Conference. It’s an important commitment under our National Strategy for Information Sharing.
This year's conference was held on 5 March to engage and collaborate with law enforcement locally and internationally.
This year’s conference, for the first time, brought together law enforcement partners and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) from across the Pacific to explore emerging threats in the region.