ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety

• Reach:

  ACT

• Focus area:

  General

• Category:

  Government

Description

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (JACS) works to provide and improve justice services and outcomes for the ACT community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The JACS, on behalf of the ACT Government, has developed a whole-of-government approach for the provision of effective services.

Services provided for Indigenous people by JACS include:

• Aboriginal justice centre
• ACT courts
• ACT ombudsman
• ACT policing
• ACT corrective services
• consumer guide
• human rights commission
• mental health services
• restorative justice
• victim support.

ACT Corrective Services is a branch of the Department of Justice and Community Safety. Corrective Services aims to protect the community by providing a safe, secure and humane correctional system which encourages offenders to rehabilitate.

ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety abstract

Contacts

ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety
GPO Box 158
Canberra ACT 2601
Ph: 13 22 81

Links

• View information: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs
• View information: ACT Corrective Services
• View contact details: ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety
• View website: ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety