Justice and Community Safety Directorate (ACT)

The Justice and Community Safety Directorate strives to maintain a fair, safe and peaceful community in the ACT where people’s rights and interests are respected and protected.

The Directorate and agencies under the portfolio provide services to the entire Canberra community in areas of:

• justice
• emergency preparedness and response
• regulation of many consumer and business activities, and
• protection of rights.

We also provide services across the ACT government including legal advice and legal representation and in specialised areas of legislative drafting.