PEOPLE who make a complaint to Queensland's crime and corruption watchdog will be charged if they go public under sweeping reforms of the embattled organisation.
The state government has released its response to two reports into the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) and will introduce legislation this year to implement the recommendations it accepted.
Senior ministers have lambasted the watchdog for publicly releasing sensitive documents from the Fitzgerald inquiry into police corruption and claim it has allowed itself to be used as a political football during the 2012 election campaign.
Under the changes, the government will try to reduce complaints flowing into the CMC, especially baseless, vexatious allegations.
People who lodge an allegation with the CMC will have to sign a statutory declaration and the CMC will be obliged to instigate prosecutions for complaints which are found to be malicious.
It will be an offence for any person, including an officer of the CMC, to disclose that a complaint has been made and the subject of it.
A person found to have made a baseless complaint may be required to pay compensation to the CMC or the person who the complaint was made against.
The threshold of what constitutes "official misconduct" will be raised, in a bid to reduce complaints.
There will also be an administrative restructure of the CMC, in a bid to reduce its increasing bureaucratisation.
The government won't split the CMC in two, as recommended, but it will lose its education and research functions to have a renewed focus on fighting crime.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie says the changes are necessary to uphold the integrity and improve the overall running of the CMC.
"We have seen over the years, a watchdog that has lost its way and has become over burdened with red tape," he said.
"These changes will improve the internal processes, practices and culture within the CMC.
"Queenslanders deserve to have a watchdog they can trust and this government is committed to implementing these recommendations to ensure this."
The government hopes to have all recommendations implemented by March 2014.
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