New anti-gang taskforce starts operations Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare says the anti-gang taskforce is up and running across Australia. THE government's new anti-gang taskforce is up and running. Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare says it comprises 71 members of the Australian Federal Police, state police forces, the Australian Crime Commission, Customs and the Department of Immigration with a brief to go after criminal gangs across the country. Mr Clare said they would directly investigate gang activity in Australia and overseas, and arrest gang members. The taskforce is based on the FBI's Violent Gang Safe Street Taskforce, responsible for more than 55,000 arrests in the US since 2001, he said.