CMC Commissioner Philip Nase says CMC staff struggling under growing number of investigations PCMC Chair Liz Cunningham hears evidence relating to the release of Fitzgerald Inquiry documents. PIC: Darren England Source: The Courier-Mail THE State's misconduct watchdog may need to limit the number of cases it investigates to deal with its growing workload, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. CMC Commissioner Philip Nase told an inquiry into the bungled release of sensitive Fitzgerald inquiry files the CMC could benefit from adopting a model similar to that used by the NSW anti-corruption body, which focuses on cases that have a greater impact on the community. "The whole of the CMC is operating under stress," Mr Nase told the Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee inquiry. For example, in misconduct there are four investigative teams. They have a load at the moment of 60 matters. A large number of them are very complex and difficult matters. Mr Nase said he believed the CMC did the best with the resources it had but may have to change the way it operates with its workload continuing to grow. "I know that some anti-corruption agencies, ICAC (the Independent Commission against Corruption in NSW) for example, only take on a limited amount of work and select cases that they think will be high-profile cases that have maximum impact within the community," he said. Perhaps we may have to consider a similar approach and not try and do so much work. That's one of the risks that the commission itself will have to debate in the future. His comments were made on Thursday on the last day of public hearings into the file release scandal, in which covert information was released to the public. The CMC estimates about 16 former witnesses and informants may have been put at risk by the bungle, which had further tarnished the already strained relationship between the CMC and the Newman Government. The Government is expected to receive the findings of the PCMC's inquiry next week. Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie will receive the Callinan review of the CMC next week after being handed the executive summary on Thursday. Both Premier Campbell Newman and Mr Bleijie have declared they will maintain a "strong and independent CMC."