About Council's Fraud and Corruption Policy
The Policy sets out Council's commitment to:
- Preventing fraud and corruption
- Detecting suspicious activity
- Responding to allegations
- Keeping accurate records
Council has zero tolerance for fraudulent or corrupt conduct.
Policy information
- Fraud: Dishonest activity causing financial loss, including theft, falsification of documents, or misuse of information.
- Corruption: Abuse of position for personal or organisational gain, including fraud.
- Council staff
- Councillors
- Committee members
- Volunteers
- Service providers and partners
- Prevention
- Ethical culture and training
- Risk management and screening
- Strong security and compliance
- Detection
- Internal controls and audits
- Reporting channels for staff and public
- Monitoring high-risk areas
- Response
- Immediate action to prevent further loss
- Fair investigations
- Disciplinary or legal action
- Referral to ICAC, NSW Police, or other agencies
- Record Keeping
- Confidential registers of complaints and outcomes
- Maintained by Governance and Risk team
- General Manager: Reports suspected corruption to ICAC and criminal matters to NSW Police.
- Council Officials: Must report suspected fraud or corruption.
- Public: Encouraged to report suspicious behaviour via Council’s complaints process.
Any breach may lead to investigation and disciplinary or legal action. Distressing or misleading complaints are also taken seriously.
Page last updated: 28 Nov 2025
